Depth migration by the Gaussian beam summation method

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Popov, Mikhail M ^a   Semtchenok, Nikolay M ^a   Popov, Peter M ^a   Verdel, Arie R ^b  

^a STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBSALT IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VELOCITY; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY; MIGRATION TECHNIQUE; REVERSE TIME MIGRATIONS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; VELOCITY MODEL BUILDING; VELOCITY VARIATIONS; WAVE-EQUATION MIGRATION;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GREEN FUNCTION; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION; BACK PROPAGATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 84864155261     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3361651     Document Type: Article

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