Imaging CSEM data in the presence of electrical anisotropy

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Newman, Gregory A ^a   Commer, Michael ^a   Carazzone, James J ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LINES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

ANISOTROPIC RESISTIVITY; CONTROLLED SOURCE ELECTROMAGNETIC (CSEM); ELECTRICAL ANISOTROPY; NONLINEAR CONJUGATE GRADIENT; PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM; RESISTIVITY MODELING; TRANSMITTING ANTENNA; TRANSVERSE ANISOTROPY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVE EQUATION; ANTENNA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; BRAZIL;

EID: 84864155077     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3295883     Document Type: Article

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