PS-wave moveout inversion for tilted TI media: A physical-modeling study

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Dewangan, Pawan ^a,b   Tsvankin, Ilya ^a   Batzle, Mike ^a   van Wijk, Kasper ^a   Haney, Matthew ^a,c  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysical signal processing; Seismic waves; Seismology

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES;

GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MOVEOUT-ASYMMETRY; SYMMETRY AXIS TILT; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIA;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA INVERSION; MODELING; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 33748054810     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2212274     Document Type: Article

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