Compressional head waves in attenuative formations: Forward modeling and inversion

Geophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1908-1920

  Liu, Qing Huo ^a,b   Chang, Chung ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; DATA PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BRANCH CUT INTEGRATION; FORWARD MODELING; REAL AXIS INTEGRATION; SEISMIC INVERSION; SONIC COMPRESSIONAL HEAD WAVES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

COMPRESSIONAL HEADWAVE; FORWARD MODELLING; INVERSION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

EID: 6044244853     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444106     Document Type: Article

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