Estimating seismic attenuation (Q) in the presence of random noise

Journal of Seismic Exploration

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-181

  Picotti, Stefano ^a   Carcione, José M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frequency shift method; Quality factor; Seismic modelling; Spectral ratio method

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC NOISE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 33748428178     PISSN: 09630651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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