Application of EM algorithms for seismic facices classification

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 421-429

  Han, Mei ^a   Zhao, Yong ^b   Li, Gaoming ^a   Reynolds, Albert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic impedance; EM; Facies; Poison's ratio

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN METHOD; POISSON RATIO; RESERVOIR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY;

EID: 79957841666     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-010-9212-4     Document Type: Article

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