The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the principles underlying modern geophysical techniques used in the exploration and exploitation of petroleum and mineral resources, engineering, archeology, and groundwater geology.
Assessment is by means of weekly assignments and final examination.
Gravity fields and potential, the geoid, gravimeter design, data collection techniques and data reduction. Convolution, digital methods for recording, filtering, and deconvolution of data, velocity analysis, stacking, common depth point method, migration, static shifts.