Enforcing smoothness and assessing uncertainty in non-linear one-dimensional prestack seismic inversion

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-259

  Varela, Omar J ^a,c   Torres Verdín, Carlos ^a   Sen, Mrinal K ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROCK MECHANICS; SHEAR WAVES; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

COMPRESSIONAL-WAVE VELOCITY; GLOBAL INVERSION; SEISMIC INVERSION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA INVERSION; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 33645746832     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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