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Volume 34 Number 2
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

ABSTRACT

A new inversion method for seismic reflection data is based on impedance concepts and uses transformations to reduce the essentially non‐linear problem to a linear eigenvalue formulation without approximation. A set of reflection data has been inverted using this method. The characteristic impedances of the layers so determined are compared with log data from a reference borehole.

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