Seismic imaging and illumination with internal multiples

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 847-864

  Malcolm, Alison E ^a   Ursin, Bjørn ^b   De Hoop, Maarten V ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Theoretical seismology; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 61349113457     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03992.x     Document Type: Article

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