An overview of depth imaging in exploration geophysics

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Etgen, John ^a   Gray, Samuel H ^b   Zhang, Yu ^c  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b CGG   (France)

^c CGG   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

COMPUTATIONAL PROCESS; EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS; MIGRATION TECHNIQUE; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; SEISMIC PROCESSING; STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS; STRUCTURAL IMAGING; SUBSURFACE VELOCITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC MIGRATION;

EID: 84861193175     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3223188     Document Type: Article

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