Improving crosshole radar velocity tomograms: A new approach to incorporating high-angle traveltime data

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Irving, James D ^a,c   Knoll, Michael D ^b   Knight, Rosemary J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar; Radar imaging; Well logging

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CORRELATION METHODS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

CROSSCORRELATIONS; CROSSHOLE RADAR VELOCITY TOMOGRAMS; HIGHEST-RESOLUTION RAY-BASED TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BOREHOLE LOGGING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

BOISE; IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447322532     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2742813     Document Type: Article

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