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Volume 24 Number 3
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

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The main problem in seismic prospecting is to infer from the observed reflection response the distribution of density and seismic velocity with depth. This process is generally called the inversion of the reflection data.

For plane waves propagating through plane parallel stratification, it can be shown that at any depth the ratio between the amplitude of the transmitted and reflected wave satisfies the Riccati equation. Based on this equation we have formulated an iterative inversion method, which is found to be suitable for numerical computations. We have applied this method on synthetic reflection data, and found that it provides a very fast and accurate inversion.

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2006-04-27
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