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The full wave acoustic well log gives a large amount of information about the surrounding formation, which is encoded into a complex wavetrain and is not easily interpretable. This paper presents a technique using the Wigner Distribution to recover some of the information encoded in these wavetrains.
This research has been supported by a consortium of companies. The member companies are AMOCO Production Company, ARCO Oil and Gas Company, Exxon Production Research Company, Gearhart Industries, Inc., MOBIL Research and Development Inc., Seismograph Service Corporation, SOHIO Petroleum Company, and TEXACO Corporation.
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Day, D.D., Yarlagadda, R. (1984). The Modified Discrete Wigner Distribution and its Application to Acoustic Well Logging. In: Kaveh, M., Mueller, R.K., Greenleaf, J.F. (eds) Acoustical Imaging. Acoustical Imaging, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2779-0_24
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