Talk:Seismic tomography

Tomography in reflection seismology
Tomographic inversion plays a significant part in depth imaging in the seismic oil exploration industry. This should probably be mentioned briefly. 136.250.232.88 13:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC) Robruss24 13:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Move from "tomography" to "imaging"
I'm requesting this move since tomography is more of a medical term, and is unnecessarily jargon. Imaging is far more intuitive, and is more popular: Also, I'm starting a new article called Geophysical imaging, showcasing the different geophysical techniques.+mwtoews 23:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I would vote no on this. Seismic tomography is a subset of seismic imaging that relies on using forward-scattered energy to map long-wavelength variations in the Earth's seismic velocity. Seismic imaging also incorporates reflection seismology techniques (analogous to ultrasound imaging in medicine) that use back-scattered energy. Adrock828 09:50, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 10:03, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Velocity of what?
The word "velocity" in the lede is confusing. To the layman, it seems to mean that only parts of the earth that are moving relative to the earth as a whole can be imaged. Geologists would of course know that it refers to the velocity of the seismic waves, but not everyone who reads this is a geologist. Zyxwv99 (talk) 03:30, 20 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I've linked it to speed of sound. The more obvious seismic velocity is unfortunately a redirect to seismic wave, which scarcely mentions velocity at all - we probably should have an article on that. Mikenorton (talk) 07:07, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Broken link?
I think the link for reference 2 is broken? Landtech Enterprises seems to have a new URL. Darthmaluus (talk) 19:25, 1 July 2015 (UTC)