Fracture effects in seismic attenuation images reconstructed by waveform tomography

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Rao, Ying ^a   Wang, Yanghua ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

FRACTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HORIZONTAL FRACTURES; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SUBSURFACE ATTENUATION; VERTICAL FRACTURE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650284249     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3129264     Document Type: Article

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