Slowness-weighted diffraction stack for migrating wide-angle seismic data in laterally varying media

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1046-1052

  Van Avendonk, Harm J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH INDICATORS; EARTH (PLANET); IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; DIFFRACTION; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TARGET TRACKING;

EARTH CRUST; TRAVELTIME CONSTRAINTS; EARTH CRUSTS; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; REFLECTING BOUNDARY; REFLECTIVITY STRUCTURES; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; TWO-WAY TRAVELTIME;

SEISMOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 4544324812     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1778247     Document Type: Article

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