Communications – electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices – Seismic prospecting – Land-reflection type
Patent
1993-04-30
1996-02-06
Moskowitz, Nelson
Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
Seismic prospecting
Land-reflection type
367 56, 367 73, 364421, G01V 128, G01V 136
Patent
active
054901200
ABSTRACT:
An overturned wave is identified in initial seismic data and revised seismic data gathering parameters are calculated (e.g., a range of locations for a seismic source and detectors laterally displaced from the source). The gathered seismic data is used to image the interface by using an imaging algorithm capable of migrating downgoing and upcoming reflections.
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Li Zhiming
Ottolini Richard
Jacobson William O.
Moskowitz Nelson
Union Oil Company of California
Wirzbicki Gregory F.
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