Imaging internal multiples from subsalt VSP data - Examples of target-oriented interferometry

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Vasconcelos, Ivan ^a,c   Snieder, Roel ^a   Hornby, Brian ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c ION GEOPHYSICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; INTERFEROMETRY; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SUBSALT IMAGING; SUBSALT STRATA;

INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGES; INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING; INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUE; PROCEDURE CONTROL; REPRESENTATION THEOREM; SEDIMENT STRUCTURES; SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRIES; WATER BOTTOM MULTIPLES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ARRIVAL TIME; BOREHOLE LOGGING; DECONVOLUTION; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; IMAGING METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEISMIC DATA; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVE SCATTERING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; SIGSBEE ESCARPMENT;

EID: 48449094546     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2944168     Document Type: Article

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