Paraxial ray methods for anisotropic inhomogeneous media

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-37

  Moser, Tijmen Jan ^a   Červený, Vlastislav ^b  

^a Zeehelden Geoservices ^*  (Netherlands)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPIC INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; CARTESIAN COORDINATES; INTERFACE PROPAGATOR MATRIX; MIGRATION OPERATORS; SURFACE-TO-SURFACE PARAXIAL MATRIX; TWO-POINT EIKONAL;

RAY TRACING;

MATRIX; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 33845983662     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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