Estimating interval shear-wave splitting from multicomponent virtual shear check shots

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Bakulin, Andrey ^a,b   Mateeva, Albena ^a  

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

^b WESTERNGECO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geophysical signal processing; Geophysical techniques; Seismic waves; Seismology

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; OVERBURDEN EFFECT; ROTATION TRANSFORMS; SEISMIC PROCESSING; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING;

SHEAR FLOW;

AZIMUTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHONE; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 53849146051     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2952356     Document Type: Article

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