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During the past two decades, seismic tomography has been landing from the blue sky of academic or pioneering papers to the hard ground of industrial processing over a large scale. Actually, this happened for a few specific applications, such as tomostatics and velocity modeling for pre-stack depth migration. Other more recent or sophisticated developments, involving full waveform inversion or interferometry, are still maturing in terms of theoretical refinements or viable implementations. In this paper, I review the major practical or theoretical impact. I also propose a list of weak or missing items in the state-of-the art technology that needs to be addressed, to cope with current challenges in exploration, monitoring and production of unconventional tight gas.
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Vesnaver, A. Seismic Tomography from the Old to the New Millennium. Arab J Sci Eng 38, 1–9 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-012-0380-5
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