Improved applicability of ray tracing in seismic acquisition, imaging, and interpretation

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Gjøystdal, Håvar ^a   Iversen, Einar ^a   Lecomte, Isabelle ^a   Kaschwich, Tina ^a   Drottning, Åsmund ^a   Mispel, Joachim ^a,b  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HIGH-FREQUENCY APPROXIMATION; STANDARD RAY METHOD;

RAY TRACING;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; RAY TRACING; SMOOTHING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34548541990     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2736515     Document Type: Article

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