Depth-domain velocity analysis in VTI media using surface P-wave data: Is it feasible?

1999 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Le Stunff, Yves ^a   Grechka, Vladimir ^b   Tsvankin, Ilya ^b  

^a TOTAL   (France)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

ANISOTROPIC MODELS; ANISOTROPIC REFLECTION; ANISOTROPIC VELOCITIES; INVERSION PROCEDURE; SURFACE SEISMIC DATA; TIME-DOMAIN IMAGING; VELOCITY ANALYSIS; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EID: 85054073847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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