Multifocusing revisited - inhomogeneous media and curved interfaces

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 925-938

  Landa, Evgeny ^a   Keydar, Shemer ^b   Jan Moser, Tijmen ^c  

^a OPERA   (France)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Moveout formulae; Multifocusing method; Subsurface imaging

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; COMMONLY USED; CURVED INTERFACE; DIFFRACTED WAVES; FIXED PARAMETERS; FOCUSING FUNCTION; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; MOVEOUT; MULTIFOCUSING; MULTIFOCUSING METHOD; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; RADII OF CURVATURE; RECEIVER LOCATION; REFLECTION POINTS; RUGGED TOPOGRAPHY; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC PROCESSING; SPHERICAL SURFACE; SPHERICAL WAVES; SQUARE ROOTS; SUB-SURFACE IMAGING; TAYLOR EXPANSIONS; THREE DIMENSIONS; THREE PARAMETERS; TRAVEL TIME;

FOCUSING; REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SPHERES;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD; INHOMOGENEITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 78650454131     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00865.x     Document Type: Article

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