Elastic full waveform inversion of multi-component OBC seismic data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 56, Issue 6 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 843-862

  Sears, T J ^a,c   Singh, S C ^b   Barton, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IPG Paris   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSET; DATA-DRIVEN; DIFFERENT VELOCITY; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; LOW VELOCITIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; MULTI COMPONENTS; OCEAN-BOTTOM CABLE SEISMIC DATA; P-WAVE VELOCITIES; P-WAVES; S-WAVE VELOCITIES; S-WAVES; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SURFACE PARAMETERS; TIME DOMAIN OCT; WAVE DATA; WAVEFORM INVERSIONS;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DATA INVERSION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 53549111076     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2008.00692.x     Document Type: Article

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