Anisotropic migration velocity analysis: Application to a data set from West Africa

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 575-587

  Sarkar, Debashish ^a,b   Tsvankin, Ilya ^a  

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

^b ION GEOPHYSICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANISOTROPIC DEPTH MIGRATION; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS (MVA);

ANISOTROPY;

ALGORITHM; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33748346046     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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