Source location using time-reverse imaging

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 861-873

  Artman, Brad ^a   Podladtchikov, Igor ^a   Witten, Ben ^a  

^a Spectraseis AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffractor; Sigsbee; Source location; Time reverse modelling; Wavefield propagation

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTOR; SIGSBEE; SOURCE LOCATION; TIME-REVERSE MODELLING; WAVEFIELD PROPAGATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOCORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; FOCAL MECHANISM; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SOURCE PARAMETERS; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77955742069     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00911.x     Document Type: Article

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