Amplitude compensation for one-way wave propagators in inhomogeneous media and its application to seismic imaging

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 203-221

  Cao, Jun ^a   Wu, Ru Shan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamlet; Image amplitude; Local angle domain; Propagator amplitude; Seismic imaging; WKBJ

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849180049     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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