Improving the virtual source method by wavefield separation

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Mehta, Kurang ^a   Bakulin, Andrey ^b   Sheiman, Jonathan ^b   Calvert, Rodney ^b   Snieder, Roel ^a  

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

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Seafloor phenomena; Seismic waves; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SEAFLOOR PHENOMENA; VIRTUAL SOURCE METHOD; WAVEFIELD SEPARATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA ACQUISITION; GREEN FUNCTION; OVERBURDEN; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE FIELD;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; GULF OF MEXICO; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 34447340615     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2733020     Document Type: Article

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