An accurate ray-based offset-to-angle transform from normal moveout uncorrected multicomponent data in a transversely isotropic medium with vertical symmetry axis

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Mukhopadhyay, Pradip Kumar ^a   Mallick, Subhashis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; LOCAL POLYNOMIALS; MULTICOMPONENT DATUM; PRE-STACK SEISMIC DATA; RECEIVER LOCATION; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIUM; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA INVERSION; PRESTACK MIGRATION; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC DATA; TRANSFORM; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857332589     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3565182     Document Type: Article

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