Multiple reflection and transmission phases in complex layered media using a multistage fast marching method

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1338-1350

  Rawlinson, N ^a   Sambridge, M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; WAVEFRONTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MULTILAYERS; RAY TRACING; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMISSIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EILONAL SOLVERS; FAST MARCHING METHODS (FMM); LOCAL GRID REFINEMENT; SEISMIC IMAGING; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; FAST MARCHING METHODS; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; REFLECTION AND REFRACTIONS; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; WAVE-FRONT CURVATURE;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; WAVEFRONTS;

DATA PROCESSING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LAYERED MEDIUM; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 8144226629     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1801950     Document Type: Article

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