Extended imaging conditions for wave-equation migration

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-55

  Sava, Paul ^a   Vasconcelos, Ivan ^b,c  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b ION GEOPHYSICAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imaging; Interferometry; Tomography; Velocity analysis; Wave equation

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF INCIDENCE; COMMON IMAGE POINTS; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; IMAGING; IMAGING CONDITIONS; INDUSTRY PRACTICES; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS; REGULAR SURFACES; SCATTERING THEORY; SEISMIC IMAGE; SEMBLANCE ANALYSIS; TIME LAG; TOMOGRAPHIC; VELOCITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY ERRORS; VELOCITY MODEL; WAVE-EQUATION MIGRATION; WAVEFIELDS;

INTERFEROMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

VELOCITY;

DATA INTERPRETATION; IMAGING METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 78650043308     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00888.x     Document Type: Article

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