Reverse time migration in tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) media

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Fletcher, Robin P ^a   Du, Xiang ^a   Fowler, Paul J ^b  

^a WESTERNGECO   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERNGECO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; VELOCITY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

AXIS OF SYMMETRY; DOWNWARD CONTINUATION; FINITE DIFFERENCING; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; REVERSE TIME MIGRATIONS; SHEAR VELOCITIES; STABLE NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; TILTED TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ALGORITHM; IMAGING METHOD; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; P-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SYMMETRY; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 84861198430     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3269902     Document Type: Article

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