Recursive imaging with multiply scattered waves using partial image regularization: A North Sea case study

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Malcolm, Alison E ^a   De Hoop, Maarten V ^b   Ursin, Bjørn ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFLECTION;

IMAGE REGULARIZATION; IMAGED REFLECTORS; IMAGING PROCESS; MULTI-STEP; RECURSIVE IMAGING; REVERSE TIME MIGRATIONS; SCATTERED WAVES; VELOCITY MODEL;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

DATA SET; IMAGING METHOD; MODELING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84857317684     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3537822     Document Type: Article

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