Improving lateral and vertical resolution of seismic images by correcting for wavelet stretch in common-angle migration

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Perez, Gabriel ^a   Marfurt, Kurt J ^b  

^a Occupational Health Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LITHOLOGY; REFLECTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH ANGLE (AVA); AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSET (AVO); SEISMIC REFLECTIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; AVO METHOD; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LITHOLOGY; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

FORT WORTH; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36148986095     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2781619     Document Type: Article

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