Microseismic design studies

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zimmer, Ulrich ^a  

^a Pinnacle   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; LOCATION; NUMBER THEORY; SEISMOLOGY; SURVEYS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; TENSORS;

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; ARRAY GEOMETRIES; CONDITION NUMBERS; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; DOWN-HOLE SURVEYS; LOCATION ACCURACY; MICROSEISMIC SURVEYS; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION;

MICROSEISMIC MONITORING;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INVERSION; MOMENT TENSOR; MONITORING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 84857289194     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0004.1     Document Type: Article

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