Single-well acoustic imaging in anisotropic formations

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Tang, Xiao Ming ^a   Glassman, Howard ^a   Patterson, Doug ^a  

^a BAKER HUGHES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; BOREHOLES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; REFLECTION; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC REFLECTION; ANISOTROPIC FORMATIONS; ANISOTROPY EFFECT; CORRECTION METHOD; FORMATION ANISOTROPY; IMAGED REFLECTORS; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC;

ANISOTROPY;

ACOUSTIC IMAGERY; ANISOTROPY; BOREHOLE; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODELING; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 48449094798     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2907522     Document Type: Article

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