Waveform tomography at a groundwater contamination site: Surface reflection data

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Gao, Fuchun ^a,b   Levander, Alan ^a   Pratt, Gerhard R ^c   Zelt, Colin A ^a   Fradelizio, Gian Luigi ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CGG   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; REMEDIATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

DENSE NONAQUEOUS-PHASE LIQUIDS; PALEOCHANNEL; SURFACE REFLECTION DATA; WAVEFORM TOMOGRAPHY;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; PALEOCHANNEL; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548544630     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2752744     Document Type: Article

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