The isochron ray in seismic modeling and imaging

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1053-1070

  Iversen, Einar ^a  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; COST FUNCTIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC WAVES; TARGET TRACKING;

ISOCHRON; SEISMIC IMAGING; AMPLITUDE PRESERVING; CORRECTION FACTORS; DOWNWARD CONTINUATION; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MODEL INDEPENDENT; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; SYSTEMS OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TRAVEL-TIME TABLES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY;

IMAGING METHOD; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 4544232349     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1778248     Document Type: Article

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