3D 3-C full-wavefield elastic inversion for estimating anisotropic parameters: A feasibility study with synthetic data

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Chang, Hui ^a,b   McMechan, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Shell International e and P   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

ANISOTROPIC LAYERS; ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HORIZONTAL SYMMETRY; INVERSION RESULTS; ORTHORHOMBIC MEDIA; PARAMETER CORRELATION; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIAS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DATA INVERSION; ELASTICITY; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 84861189698     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3204766     Document Type: Article

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