Three methods for mitigating airwaves in shallow water marine controlled-source electromagnetic data

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Jiuping ^a   Alumbaugh, David L ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; CONTROLLED SOURCE; CONTROLLED SOURCE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC; ELECTRIC COMPONENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; RESERVOIR MODELING; RESISTIVITY MODELING;

OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; SHALLOW WATER; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84863116106     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3536641     Document Type: Article

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