3D imaging challenges in steeply dipping mining structures: New lights on acquisition geometry and processing from the Brunswick no. 6 seismic data, Canada

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Cheraghi, Saeid ^a   Malehmir, Alireza ^a   Bellefleur, Gilles ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D; Acquisition footprint; Mining; Processing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FILTRATION; GEOMETRY; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINING; PROCESSING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES;

3D DATA ACQUISITION; ACQUISITION FOOTPRINT; ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; COMMON DEPTH POINTS; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; POST-STACK MIGRATION; WAVE NUMBER DOMAIN; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; FUTURE PROSPECT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CANADA;

EID: 84866464781     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0475.1     Document Type: Article

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