Exploring some issues in acoustic full waveform inversion

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 56, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 827-841

  Mulder, Wim A ^a   Plessix, R E ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DATA SETS; ERROR MEASURES; FINITE DIFFERENCING; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GLOBAL MINIMUM; GRADIENT-BASED; INITIAL VELOCITIES; LEAST-SQUARES; LINEAR VELOCITIES; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MAXIMUM DEPTH; SEISMIC DATA; SPECTRAL COVERAGE; TIME DOMAINS; VARIABLE DENSITY; VELOCITY MODELING; WAVE FORMS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; DATA INVERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 53549102506     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2008.00708.x     Document Type: Article

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