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SEP Theses
Below you will find every SEP Ph.D. thesis written since 1974. Theses written since 1992 are available online in HTML format or for download as compressed postscript (“ps.gz”) documents, while the older ones are downloadable as both PDF and ps.gz documents. The source code is also available for the recent theses, in “tar.gz” format.
To contact any of the authors, check Rick Ottolini's Alumni Database. Or contact Jon who has a slightly newer database.
| Report | Title | Author |
| SEP-175 (2019) | Velocity model building using shape optimization applied to level sets | Taylor Dahlke |
| SEP-173 (2018) | Passive Imaging and Characterization of the Subsurface with Distributed Acoustic Sensing | Eileen Martin |
| SEP-171 (2018) | Imaging with ambient seismic noise: Beyond surface-wave microseisms | Jason Chang |
| SEP-169 (2017) | Elastic full waveform inversion of multicomponent data | Gustavo Catao Alves |
| SEP-167 (2017) PDF Video | Seismic rotational data: Acquisition, processing and applications | Ohad Barak |
| SEP-166 (2016) | Wave-equation migration Q analysis | Yi Shen |
| SEP-162 (2016) | Time-lapse Inverse Theory | Musa Maharramov |
| SEP-161 (2016) | The separation and imaging of continuously recorded seismic data | Chris Leader |
| SEP-159 (2015) | Velocity model building using residual moveout-based wave-equation migration velocity analysis | Yang Zhang |
| SEP-157 (2014) | Imaging with multiples by least-squares reverse time migraiton | Mandy Wong |
| SEP-156 (2014) | Early-arrival waveform inversion for near-surface velocity estimation | Xukai Shen |
| SEP-154 (2014) | Wave-equation migration velocity analysis for VTI models with geological and rock physics constraints | Yunyue (Elita) Li |
| SEP-153 (2014) | Interpreter-driven automatic image segmentation and model evaluation | Adam Halpert |
| SEP-151 (2014) | Passive seismic surface-wave interferometry for reservoir-scale imaging | Sjoerd A.L. de Ridder |
| SEP-146 (2011) | Time-lapse seismic imaging by linearized joint inversion | Gboyega Ayeni |
| SEP-144 (2011) | Imaging and velocity analysis by target-oriented wavefield inversion | Yaxun Tang |
| SEP-141 (2010) | Migration-velocity analysis using image-space generalized wavefields | Claudio Guerra |
| SEP-137 (2009) | Wave-equation migration in generalized coordinates | Jeff Shragge |
| SEP-135 (2008) | Interpolation with prediction-error filters and training data | William Curry |
| SEP-133 (2008) | Imaging by wave-equation inversion | Alejandro A. Valenciano |
| SEP-132 (2008) | Imaging of steep reflectors in anisotropic media by wavefield extrapolation | Guojian Shan |
| SEP-130 (2007) | Attenuation of multiples in image space | Gabriel F. Alvarez |
| SEP-128 (2006) | Passive seismic imaging | Brad Artman |
| SEP-127 (2006) | Imaging of converted-wave Ocean-bottom seismic data | Daniel A. Rosales Roche |
| SEP-126 (2006) | Seismic volumetric flattening and segmentation | Jesse Lomask |
| SEP-122 (2005) | Imaging under salt: illumination compensation by regularized inversion | Marie Clapp |
| SEP-121 (2005) | Multidimensional seismic noise attenuation | Antoine Guitton |
| SEP-119 (2004) | Seismoelectric imaging of shallow targets | Seth Haines |
| SEP-118 (2004) | Migration and velocity analysis by wavefield extrapolation | Paul Sava |
| SEP-116 (2004) | Least-squares joint imaging of multiples and primaries | Morgan P. Brown |
| SEP-109 (2001) | Spectral factorization of wavefields and wave operators | James Rickett |
| SEP-107 (2000) | Three-dimensional seismic data regularization | Sergey Fomel |
| SEP-106 (2000) | Geologically constrained migration velocity analysis | Robert G. Clapp |
| SEP-104 (2000) | Seismic trace interpolation with nonstationary prediction-error filters | Sean Crawley |
| SEP-101 (1999) | Imaging irregularly sampled 3D prestack data | Nizar Chemingui |
| |SEP-99 (1998) | Enhancement of Discontinuities in seismic 3-D images using a Java estimation library | Matthias Schwab |
| SEP-96 (1998) | Seismic Characterization of Methane Hydrate Structures | Christine Ecker |
| SEP-91 (1995) | Seismic Time-Lapse Monitoring of Subsurface Fluid Flow | David E. Lumley |
| SEP-90 (1995) | Sequential Seismic Inversion Using Plane Wave Synthesis | Jun Ji |
| SEP-88 (1995) | Least-Squares Separation of Signals and Noise Using Multidimensional Filters | Raymond L. Abma |
| SEP-87 (1995) | Imaging Under Rugged Topography and Complex Velocity Structure | Dimitri Bevc |
| SEP-86 (1995) | Passive Seismic and Drill-Bit Experiments Using 2-D Arrays | Stephen P. Cole |
| SEP-85 (1995) | Migration to Zero Offset in Variable Velocity Medium | Alexander M. Popovici |
| SEP-83 (1995) | Elastic Tensor Wave Fields | Martin Karrenbach |
| SEP-81 (1994) | Imaging in Complex Structures Using Band-limited Green's Functions | Dave Nichols |
| SEP-78 (1992) | Anisotropic Traveltime Tomography, | Reinaldo J. Michelena |
| SEP-76 (1992) | Imaging by the Wave Front Propagation Method, | Lin Zhang |
| SEP-74 (1992) | Elastic Modeling and Migration in Earth Models | Carlos A. Cunha Filho |
| Note: All theses written before SEP-76 are “pdf” or “ps.gz” files only | ||
| SEP-69 (1991) | Anisotropic Seismic Wave Propagation | Joe A. Dellinger |
| SEP-68 (1990) | Residual Prestack Migration and Interval-Velocity Estimation | John Theodore Etgen |
| SEP-66 (1990) | Tomographic Determination of Structural Velocities from Depth-migrated Seismic Data | Johannes A. van Trier |
| SEP-64 (1990) | Seismic Velocity Estimation by Beam Stack | Biondo Biondi |
| SEP-63 (1990) | Multichannel Seismic Experiment with a Drill-Bit Source | Clement Kostov |
| SEP-62 (1989) | Wave Equation Tomography | Marta Jo Woodward |
| SEP-58 (1988) | Seismic Velocity Estimation Using Prestack Time Migration | Paul J. Fowler |
| SEP-55 (1987) | Tomographic Determination of Interval Velocities from Reflection Seismic Data: The Method of Controlled Directional Reception | Charles Hege Sword, Jr. |
| SEP-54 (1987) | Deconvolution with Spatial Constraints | Stewart A. Levin |
| SEP-53 (1987) | Velocity Analysis by Iterative Profile Migration | Kamal Mansour Al-Yahya |
| SEP-52 (1987) | Elastic Wavefield Inversion | Peter Mora |
| SEP-49 (1986) | Imaging Steep-Dip Reflections by the Linearly Transformed Wave Equation Method | Zhiming Li |
| SEP-47 (1986) | Signal/Noise Separation and Seismic Inversion | William S. Harlan |
| SEP-46 (1985) | Multichannel Inversion in Reflection Seismology | Joshua M. Ronen |
| SEP-45 (1985) | Large Near-Surface Anomalies, Seismic Reflection Data, and Simulated Annealing | Daniel H. Rothman |
| SEP-43 (1985) | Velocity Analysis Without Picking | John L. Toldi |
| SEP-39 (1984) | Velocity Stack and Slant Stack Inversion Methods | Jeffrey R. Thorson |
| SEP-36 (1983) | Dip-Moveout by Fourier Transform | Ira David Hale |
| SEP-34 (1982) | The Pre-Stack Migration of Profiles | Allan Jacobs |
| SEP-33 (1982) | Migration of Reflection Seismic Data in Angle-Midpoint Coordinates | Richard A. Ottolini |
| SEP-31 (1982) | Wave Equation Velocity Analysis | Alfonso Gonzalez-Serrano |
| SEP-29 (1982) | Predictive Techniques for Marine Multiple Suppression | Laurence C. Morley |
| SEP-27 (1981) | Wavefield Inversion Methods for Refraction and Reflection Data | Robert W. Clayton |
| SEP-23 (1979) | Attenuation of Seismic Waves and Applications in Energy Exploration | Einar Kjartansson |
| SEP-22 (1979) | Migration and Interpretation of Deep Crustal Seismic Reflection Data | Heloise Bloxsom Lynn |
| SEP-21 (1979) | Velocity Estimation in Laterally Varying Media | Walter S. Lynn |
| SEP-19 (1979) | Variable Norm Deconvolution | William C. Gray |
| SEP-18 (1979) | Pre-Stack Partial Migration | Ozgodan Yilmaz |
| SEP-17 (1979) | A Stochastic Model for Seismogram Analysis | Robert J. Godfrey |
| SEP-12 (1977) | Wide-Angle Diffracted Multiple Reflections | Raul Estevez |
| SEP-9 (1976) | Velocity Estimation by Wave Front Synthesis | Philip S. Schultz |
| SEP-6 (1975) | Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis | John Parker Burg |
| SEP-4 (1975) | Structure Independent Seismic Velocity Estimation | Stephen M. Doherty |
| SEP-3 (1974) | Wave Equation Synthesis and Inversion of Diffracted Multiple Seismic Reflections | Donald C. Riley |
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