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2D	3-C	3D	4-C
4D	5D reconstruction	acceleration sensors	acoustic
acquisition	adaptive subtraction	Africa	air gun
airborne survey	algorithm	aliasing	amplitude
anisotropy	Antarctica	apparent resistivity	aquifer
archaeology	arrays	artificial intelligence	Asia
attenuation	attributes	Australia	autofocusing
AVO/AVA	azimuth	basement	beam
bed thickness	blind deconvolution	borehole geophysics	boundary conditions
broadband	bulk modulus	Canada	carbonate
case history	CSEM	Central America	chaos
chronostratigraphy	clastic	coal	coherency
common angle	common conversion point	common midpoint	common offset
common receiver	common shot	compressional	compressional wave (P-wave)
conductivity	conical wave	continuation	converted wave
correlation	crosscorrelation	crosswell	crustal structure
datuming	data reconstruction	deblending	decomposition
deconvolution	deepwater	density	depositional system
depth conversion	depth migration	development and production	diagenesis
diffraction	dip moveout (DMO)	dispersion	displacement
distributed systems	divergence	diving wave	DMO
downhole receivers	downhole sources	downward continuation	earthquake
economics	effective	elastic	electrical/resistivity
electromagnetic	elimination (SRME) microseismic	engineering	environmental
estimation	Europe	extensional	extrapolation
facies	faults	fiber-optic sensors	filtering
finite difference	finite element	fluid	fluvial-deltaic
Fourier	fractals	fractures	fracture stimulation
frequency-domain	full-waveform inversion	gas	gathers
geology	geomatics	geophone	geothermal
GPR	GPS	gravimeter	gravity
groundwater	Gulf of Mexico	head waves	heat flow
heterogeneous	high-resolution	high-velocity layer	horizontal wells
hydrates	hydrology	hydrophones	illumination
imaging	impedance	incompressibility	induced polarization
induced seismicity	integration	interferometry	internal multiples
interpolation	interpretation	invasion	inversion
isotropic	Kirchhoff	K-L transform	land
layered	least squares	least-squares migration	life-of-field seismic (LoFS)
linear	lithology	log analysis	logging
low frequency	magnetic susceptibility	mass transport complex	magnetics
magnetization	magnetometer	magnetotelluric	mapping
marine	mathematical transform	maximum entropy	maximum likelihood
measurement while drilling (MWD)	media incompressibility	Mexico	microseismic
Middle East	migration	minimum entropy	minimum likelihood
mining	modeling	monitoring	moveout
multiazimuth	multicomponent	multilinear algebra	multiparameter
multiples	navigation	near surface	neural networks
NMO	noise	nonlinear	North America
North Sea	nuclear	nuclear magnetic resonance	numerical
OBC	oceanography	ocean-bottom node	offset
one-way	optimization	overthrust	P-wave
paleomagnetism	parallel	particle-velocity sensors	passive
permafrost	permeability	permanent reservoir monitoring (prm)	phase
polarization	pore pressure	porosity	poststack
pressure sensors	prestack	processing	production
profiling	programming	properties	Q
radial transform	radiometrics	radiation	Radon transform
random	ray tracing	reciprocity	reconstruction
reduced-rank filtering	reflection	reflectivity	refraction
remote sensing	reservoir characterization	resistivity	resistivity log
resolution	reverse time migration	risk	rock physics
salt	salt dome	sampling	sandstone
saturation	scattering	seafloor	sediment
sedimentology	seismic attributes	seismic geomorphology	seismic impedance
seismic stratigraphy	sensors	separation	sequence stratigraphy
sequestration	shale	shale gas	shallow
shear modulus	shear wave (S-wave)	signal processing	simultaneous sources
sonic	sources	South America	sparse
spectral analysis	SRME (surface-related multiple elimination)	stacking	standards
statics	statistics	steep dip	Stoneley wave
stratal slice	stratigraphy	strike-slip	subbasalt
subsalt	surface consistent	surface nuclear magnetic resonance	surface wave
survey design	tectonics	tensor	tensor algebra
tensor completion	thermal conductivity	time-domain	time-lapse
time migration	time slice	tomography	transmission
traveltime	TTI	tube wave	turbidite
turning ray	two-dimensional	ultrasonic	unconsolidated
unconventional	vector processing	velocity analysis	vertical seismic profile (VSP)
vibroseis	viscoelastic	visualization	volcanics
VTI	water	water table	wave equation
wave propagation	wavelet	wells	workstation
wide azimuth (WAZ)