Angle-domain common-image gathers for migration velocity analysis by wavefield-continuation imaging

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1283-1298

  Biondi, Biondo ^a   Symes, William W ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ERRORS; KINEMATICS; REFLECTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; VELOCITY;

COMMON IMAGE GATHERS (CIG); WAVEFIELD-CONTINUATION MIGRATION; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; KINEMATIC PROPERTIES; MIGRATION VELOCITY ANALYSIS; TRAVELTIME PERTURBATIONS; VELOCITY INFORMATION; WAVE-FIELD CONTINUATION;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 8144226789     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1801945     Document Type: Article

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