Acquisition geometry analysis in complex 3D media

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  van Veldhuizen, E J ^a,b   Blacquiere G ^a   Berkhout, A J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; DETECTOR GEOMETRY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT EFFECTS; MODEL-BASED IMPLEMENTATIONS; OVERBURDEN STRUCTURES; SEISMIC EXPLORATION; SEISMIC-FREQUENCY RANGE; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES;

GEOMETRY;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INVERSION; FOCAL MECHANISM; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GEOMETRY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 53949083078     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2972029     Document Type: Article

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