Estimating quality factor from surface seismic data: A comparison of current approaches

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 161-170

  De Castro Nunes, Bonnie Ives ^a,c   Eugênio de Medeiros, Walter ^a,b,c   Farias do Nascimento, Aderson ^a,b,c   De Morais Moreira, José Antonio ^b,c  

^a Programa de Pós graduação em Geodinâmica e Geofísica   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Geofísica do Petróleo INCT GP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Comparison of Q estimates; Frequency centroid shift; Frequency peak shift; Quality factor; Spectral ratio

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPARISON OF Q ESTIMATES; FREQUENCY CENTROID SHIFT; FREQUENCY PEAK; QUALITY FACTOR; SPECTRAL RATIOS;

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ESTIMATION;

AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ISOTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052213486     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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