Poststack velocity analysis by separation and imaging of seismic diffractions

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Fomel, Sergey ^a   Landa, Evgeny ^b   Taner, M Turhan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OPERA   (France)

^c Rock Solid Images   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; SEISMIC WAVES; VELOCITY;

MIGRATION VELOCITY; POSTSTACK VELOCITY ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DIFFRACTION; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 36149001728     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2781533     Document Type: Article

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