Characters of large volume air-gun source excitation

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 342-349

  Lin, Jian Min ^a   Wang, Bao Shan ^b   Ge, Hong Kui ^b   Xu, Ping ^c   Chen, Yong ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Earthquake Administration of Beijing Municipality   (China)

Author keywords

Excitation condition; Large volume air gun; Reservoir; Wavelet characters

Indexed keywords

AIR GUN; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HYDROPHONE; RESERVOIR; SEISMOGRAPH; VOLUME; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953954904     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issa.0001-5733.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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