Fast migration/inversion with multivalued rayfields: Part 1 - Method, validation test, and application in 2D to Marmousi

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1311-1319

  Xu, Sheng ^a   Lambaré, Gilles ^b  

^a A Div of Veritas Geophysical Corp   (United States)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EXTRAPOLATION; INTERPOLATION; MAPS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); SEISMIC WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

COARSE GRID POINTS; COMPLEX MEDIA; MULTIVALUED RAYFIELDS; WAVEFRONT CONSTRUCTION; COMPUTING TIME; ELEMENTARY CELLS; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; OVERHEAD COSTS; TWO-DIMENSION; VALIDATION TEST; WAVEFRONT CONSTRUCTIONS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC MIGRATION;

EID: 8144229295     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1801947     Document Type: Article

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