Improving the Definition of Shear Wave Splitting Attributes

A32 IMPROVING THE DEFINITION OF SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING ATTRIBUTES R.J. GAROTTA P.Y. GRANGER H. DARIU Abstract ������������������� ����������� � ���������� �� α �� ������ ����������� �� �� � � �� �� � ��� � α � �� ��� � ���α ���α � �� �� � ��� � α � �� ���� �� ���α ���α Fig 1a Fig 1b Figure 1: Radial and transverse acquisition coordinates and natural coordinates (1a) convolution operators resulting from travel through the anisotropic layer (1b) � 1 The effects of birefringence or shear wave splitting on a single raypath recorded with a good signal-tonoise ratio can