Seismic Waves in Laterally Inhomogeneous Media [Paperback]

Preface.- Coupled Anisotropic Shear-wave Ray Tracing in Situations where Associated Slowness Sheets Are Almost Tangent.- Numerical Algorithm of the Coupling Ray Theory in Weakly Anisotropic Media.- Perturbation of the Polarization Vectors in the Isotropic Ray Theory.- Synthetic Seismograms and Wide-angle Seismic Attributes from the Gaussian Beam and Reflectivity Methods for Models with Interfaces and Velocity Gradients.- Lyapunov Exponents for 2-D Ray Tracing Without Interfaces.- obolev Scalar Products in the Construction of Velocity Models: Application to Model Hess and to SEG/EAGE Salt Model.- Smoothing the Marmousi Model.- Converted PS-wave Reflection Coefficients in Weakly Anisotropic Media.- Three-dimensional Travel-time Calculation Based on Fermats Principle.- True Amplitude Migration Weights from Travel Times.- Model-independent Travel-time Attributes for 2-D, Finite-offset Multi-coverage Reflections.- Statistical Travel-time Tomography in Terms of Stacking Velocity.- Applications of Directional Wavefield Decomposition, Phase Space, and Path Integral Methods to Seismic Wave Propagation and Inversion.- Parabolic Equation Techniques for Seismic Waves.- A Full Waveform Test of the Southern California Velocity Model by the Reciprocity Method.- Constant Q and a Fractal, Stratified Earth.- Time-domain Modeling of Constant-Q Seismic Waves Using Fractional Derivatives.- Numerical Computation of Nonlinear Inelastic Waves in Soil.- Propagation of Pulses in Viscoelastic Media.- Scattering of Seismic Waves by Cracks with the Boundary Integral Method.- Application of the Medium Covariance Functions to Travel-time Tomography.- Correlation Functions of Random Media.- Estimating the Correlation Function of a Self-affine Random Medium.- P-wave Tomography in Inhomogeneous Orthorhombic Media.- Local Determination of Weak Anisotropy Parameters from qP-wave Slowness and Particle Motion Measurements.Springer Book Archives