Stereotomography: A semi-automatic approach for velocity macromodel estimation

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 671-681

  Lambaré, Gilles ^a   Alerini, M ^a,c   Baina, R ^b   Podvin, P ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b OPERA   (France)

^c SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SLOPE TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTOMOGRAPHY; TRAVELTIME TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 8744288332     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2004.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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