@article{eage:/content/journals/10.3997/1365-2397.1991004, author = "Mazzotti, A. and Mirri, S.", title = "An experience in seismic amplitude processing", journal= "First Break", year = "1991", volume = "9", number = "2", pages = "", doi = "https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.1991004", url = "https://www.earthdoc.org/content/journals/10.3997/1365-2397.1991004", publisher = "European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers", issn = "1365-2397", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "The source in seismic reflection surveys generates elastic waves in the ground. These may be considered as a transient disturbance which radiates outwards into the earth. Along the propagation path, inhomogeneous, anisotropic and imperfectly elastic media are encountered, and hence the amplitude of the disturbance will decay in a complicated manner as it propagates, dependent on the charactéristics of the media through which it passes. The amplitude of the reflected signal which we attribute to a certain horizon cannot therefore be directly related to the contrast in velocities and densities encountered by the seismic wavelet at the reflector, because many other perturbing factors exist.", }