An experimental study on the excitation of large volume airguns in a small volume body of water

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 388-394

  Wang, Baoshan ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Yuan, Songyong ^a   Guo, Shijun ^b   Ge, Hongkui ^a   Xu, Ping ^b   Chen, Yong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Earthquake Administration of Beijing Municipality   (China)

Author keywords

Active monitoring; Large volume airgun; Small volume water body

Indexed keywords

P-WAVE; SEAWATER; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOTECTONICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STACKING; STRONG MOTION; WAVE GENERATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; FANGSHAN;

EID: 78349238126     PISSN: 17422132     EISSN: 17422140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/7/4/005     Document Type: Article

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