Potential field migration for rapid imaging of gravity gradiometry data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1052-1071

  Zhdanov, Michael S ^a,b   Liu, Xiaojun ^b   Wilson, Glenn A ^a   Wan, Le ^b  

^a TechnoImaging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gradiometry; Gravitation; Migration

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; 3D INVERSION; AUSTRALIA; BROKEN HILLS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; GRADIOMETRY; GRAVITY GRADIENTS; GRAVITY GRADIOMETRY; INITIAL STAGES; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MIGRATION; POTENTIAL FIELD; PRIORI MODEL; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; RAPID IMAGING; SUBSURFACE DENSITY; TIME-CONSUMING PROCEDURE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SURVEYS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; GRAVITY SURVEY; IMAGING METHOD; POTENTIAL FIELD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80054043794     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2011.01005.x     Document Type: Article

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