Migration velocity analysis and waveform inversion

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 56, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 765-790

  Symes, William W ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; KINEMATICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SURVEYS; THEOREM PROVING; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC MODELLING; DATA FITTINGS; DESCENT METHODS; DETAILED MODELING; EARTH MODELS; EARTH STRUCTURES; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GLOBAL CONVERGENCE; IMAGE VOLUMES; INITIAL ESTIMATES; LEAST-SQUARES INVERSION; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS; MODEL-BASED; NEW APPROACHES; NEWTON-LIKE METHODS; NONLINEAR GENERALIZATIONS; NONLINEAR WAVEFORM; NUMERICAL EVIDENCE; OPTIMIZ ATION PROBLEMS; PRE-STACK MIGRATION; PRESTACK DEPTH MIGRATION; PROBLEM SIZES; REDUNDANT PARAMETERS; SCALE VELOCITY; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATION; SINGLE-SCATTERING APPROXIMATION; SOLUTION METHODS; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; SURFACE DATA; TO ESTIMATION; VELOCITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MODELING; WAVEFORM DATA; WAVEFORM INVERSIONS; WIDESPREAD USE;

MODAL ANALYSIS;

EARTH STRUCTURE; INVERSE PROBLEM; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 53549093318     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2008.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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