Seismic imaging with the generalized Radon transform: A curvelet transform perspective

Inverse Problems

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  De Hoop, M V ^a   Smith, H ^b   Uhlmann, G ^b   Van Der Hilst, R D ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED MATRICES; BACKGROUND MODEL; CURVELET COEFFICIENTS; CURVELET TRANSFORMS; DATA SETS; GENERALIZED RADON TRANSFORM; KIRCHHOFF; KIRCHHOFF MIGRATION; LOCAL PARAMETERS; MATRIX; MULTI-SCALE FEATURES; NORMAL EQUATIONS; PLANE WAVE; PRE-STACK MIGRATION; REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC IMAGING; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; WAVE FORMS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE SPEED;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADON; SEISMOLOGY;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 70350308022     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/25/2/025005     Document Type: Article

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