Anisotropic 3D full-waveform inversion

Geophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Warner, Michael ^a   Ratcliffe, Andrew ^b   Nangoo, Tenice ^a   Morgan, Joanna ^a   Umpleby, Adrian ^a   Shah, Nikhil ^a   Vinje, Vetle ^b   Štekl, Ivan ^a   Guasch, Lluís ^a   Win, Caroline ^b   Conroy, Graham ^b   Bertrand, Alexandre ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CGG   (United Kingdom)

^c Conoco Phillips Norge ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ITERATIVE METHODS; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

ANISOTROPIC REFLECTION; BROAD APPLICATION; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; LOW VELOCITY REGION; NARROW FREQUENCY BAND; PRACTICAL SCHEMES; REFLECTION DATA; REVERSE TIME MIGRATIONS;

VELOCITY;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHALLOW WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC WAVE; SEISMIC MIGRATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84878711106     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/GEO2012-0338.1     Document Type: Article

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