Robust prestack Q-determination using surface seismic data: Part 1 - Method and synthetic examples

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Reine, Carl ^a,b   Clark, Roger ^a   Van Der Baan, Mirko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CNOOC LTD   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Attenuation; Prestack; Reservoir characterization; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANGLE-DEPENDENT EFFECTS; ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTIONS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PRESTACK; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; TIME FREQUENCY TRANSFORM; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILES;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE;

EID: 84857491694     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0073.1     Document Type: Article

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