Migration velocity analysis for tilted transversely isotropic media

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-26

  Behera, Laxmidhar ^a,b   Tsvankin, Ilya ^b  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BENDING TESTS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; LITHOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFLECTION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SHALE; STRIPPING (DYES);

ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; CONSTANT VALUES; GEOLOGIC INTERPRETATIONS; LITHOLOGY DISCRIMINATIONS; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSES; MOVEOUT; PRESTACK DEPTH IMAGING; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; REFLECTION DATUMS; SALT DOMES; SEISMIC DATUMS; SHALE LAYERS; SPATIAL VELOCITIES; SUBSALT EXPLORATIONS; SYNTHETIC TESTS; THRUST BELTS; TILTED TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPIES; VELOCITY ANALYSES; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VELOCITY MODELS; VERTICAL DIRECTIONS; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS; WAVE DATUMS;

VELOCITY;

MODELING; P-WAVE; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY;

EID: 57549115223     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2008.00732.x     Document Type: Article

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