This book is less my personal creation than was FGDP. I am indebted to many people. My colleagues Francis Muir and Fabio Rocca collaborated extensively in research. The following Stanford students contributed figures, exercises or ideas: David Brown, Junyee Chen, Robert Clayton, Steve Doherty, Raul Estevez, Paul Fowler, Bob Godfrey, Alfonso Gonzalez, Dave Hale, Bill Harlan, Bert Jacobs, Einar Kjartansson, Walter Lynn, Larry Morley, Dave Okaya, Richard Ottolini, Don Riley, Shuki Ronen, Dan Rothman, Chuck Sword, Jeff Thorson, John Toldi, Oz Yilmaz, and Li Zhiming. Industrial teaching helped me clarify the material in this book. Many useful ideas on presentation came from those who assisted me in industrial teaching, namely, Rob Clayton, Walt Lynn, Einar Kjartansson, Rick Ottolini, Fabio Rocca, Dave Hale, and Dan Rothman. Thanks are also due those who helped arrange the classes: Phil Hoyt, Lee Lu, Andre Lamer, Aftab Alam, Gary Latham, and Mike Graul.
JoAnn Heydron was first my secretary, and at a later date, the editor. Terri Ramey provided drafting and graphics assistance. Pat Bartz maintained order in ways too numerous to mention. I did most of the typing myself, as computerized typesetting has lightened that load and allows a more heavily revised and debugged final product. Peter Mora, Stew Levin, Dan Rothman, and Bill Harbert assisted in final proof reading.
Major thanks are due to Stanford University and the sponsoring organizations. Without them, much less would have been achieved. A list of sponsor names is given in an appendix. Many sponsors also donated data for our research. This is acknowledged in the figure caption. Many figures were based on data from a world-wide assortment prepared for academic use by Yilmaz and Cumro [1983]. Where figures were prepared by students, I have also acknowledged them in the caption. I prepared most of the figures myself often using outstanding graphics software utilities prepared by Rick Ottolini (Tiplot , Movie ), Shuki Ronen (Thplot ), Rob Clayton (pen ), Joe Dellinger (Ipen ), and Dave Hale (Graph ).
Special thanks must also go to Western Electric Company, who donated the typesetting software (troff in 1985) that I used to prepare my lecture notes at Stanford. This software enabled me to go through many generations of improvements, eradicating scores of errors, rarely introducing new ones, all the while seeing (and having the students see) the material in almost final form. I am confident that this book has many fewer errors than did my previous book even after its second printing. When these lectures are in final form, I will simply mail a camera-ready copy and you my readers should have the book within eight weeks. So long. I'll see you at the SEG meeting.
Jon F. Claerbout
(autumn, 1984)