Beyond receiver functions: Passive source reverse time migration and inverse scattering of converted waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Shang, Xuefeng ^a   De Hoop, Maarten V ^b   Van Der Hilst, Robert D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVE EQUATIONS;

BACKGROUND MODEL; COMMON-CONVERSION POINTS; COMPLEX WAVE PHENOMENA; CONVERTED WAVE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EARTHQUAKE DATA; GEOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT; IMAGING CONDITIONS; INVERSE SCATTERING; INVERSE SCATTERING TRANSFORM; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MULTICOMPONENTS; P- AND S-WAVES; POINT DIFFRACTION; PRESTACK DEPTH MIGRATION; RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSIS; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; REVERSE TIME MIGRATIONS; SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS; WAVE MODES; WAVEFIELDS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

BACK PROPAGATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; ELASTIC WAVE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; P-WAVE; PRESTACK MIGRATION; S-WAVE; SEISMOGRAPH; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84865416922     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052289     Document Type: Article

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