A continuation approach to regularization of ill-posed problems with application to crosswell-traveltime tomography

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Bube, Kenneth P ^a   Langan, Robert T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; WELL LOGGING;

DATA APPLICATION; INVERSION ALGORITHM; PENALTY WEIGHTS; PRIORI INFORMATION; REGULARIZATION OF ILL-POSED PROBLEMS; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; SYNTHETIC PROBLEM; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA INVERSION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SMOOTHING; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 53849088225     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2969460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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