Elastic full waveform inversion of multicomponent ocean-bottom cable seismic data: Application to Alba Field, U. K. North Sea

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Sears, Timothy J ^a   Barton, Penny J ^a   Singh, Satish C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; CABLES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHEAR WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSETS; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC DATUM; OCEAN-BOTTOM CABLE SEISMIC DATA; P- AND S-WAVE VELOCITIES; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; AVO METHOD; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; ELASTIC WAVE; GEOPHONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; S-WAVE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ALBA FIELD; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84863116490     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3484097     Document Type: Article

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