Refraction tomography using a waveform-inversion back-propagation technique

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Min, Dong Joo ^a   Shin, Changsoo ^b  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Seismic waves; Seismology; Wave equations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SEISMIC WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DAMPED MONOCHROMATIC WAVEFIELD; KIRCHOFF PRESTACK MIGRATION; REFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM-INVERSION BACK-PROPAGATION TECHNIQUE;

SEISMOLOGY;

BACK PROPAGATION; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE EQUATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745098063     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2194522     Document Type: Article

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