An investigation of the effects of the choice of stacking velocities on residual statics for hardrock reflection seismic processing

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-38

  Malehmir, Alireza ^a   Juhlin, Christopher ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crystalline environment; Processing; Reflection seismics; Residual statics

Indexed keywords

COHERENT NOISE; CRYSTALLINE ENVIRONMENT; DATA EXAMPLES; DATA SETS; IMAGING PROCESS; MINERAL DEPOSITS; REFLECTION SEISMIC; RESIDUAL STATIC CORRECTION; RESIDUAL STATICS; SEISMIC DATAS; SYNTHETIC DATASETS; SYNTHETIC TESTS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFRACTION; ESTIMATION; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

REFLECTION;

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DATA PROCESSING; HARD ROCK; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STACKING;

EID: 77955981146     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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