Diffraction imaging of sub-vertical fractures and karst with full-resolution 3D Ground-Penetrating Radar

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 907-918

  Grasmueck, Mark ^a   Quintà, Miquel Coll ^b   Pomar, Kenri ^a   Eberli, Gregor P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Electromagnetics; Imaging; Interpretation; Seismics

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FRACTURED CARBONATE RESERVOIRS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; INTERPRETATION; SEISMIC DIFFRACTIONS; SEISMICS;

FRACTURE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LANDFORMS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FRACTURE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; IMAGING METHOD; KARST; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

BOUCHES DU RHONE; CASSIS; FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR;

EID: 84883041453     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2478.12004     Document Type: Article

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