Interval velocity estimation via NMO-based differential semblance

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Li, Jintan ^a   Symes, William W ^b  

^a OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

DIFFERENTIAL SEMBLANCE; INTERVAL VELOCITY ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCE; VELOCITY ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ALGORITHM; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 36148998777     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2767401     Document Type: Article

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