Suppressing unwanted internal reflections in prestack reverse-time migration

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Fletcher, Robin P ^a   Fowler, Paul J ^b   Kitchenside, Phil ^a   Albertin, Uwe ^c  

^a WESTERNGECO   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERNGECO   (United States)

^c BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysical signal processing; Imaging; Seismic waves; Wave equations

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; REFLECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

IMAGE ARTIFACTS; PRESTACK REVERSE-TIME MIGRATION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRESTACK MIGRATION; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33751040679     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2356319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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