Acoustic Staggered Grid Modeling in IWAVE

Acknowledgements

IWAVE has been a team effort: the original design of the core framework is due to Igor Terentyev, and Tanya Vdovina, Dong Sun, Marco Enriquez, Xin Wang, Yin Huang, Mario Bencomo, and Muhong Zhou have each made major contributions. Development of IWAVE was supported by the SEG Advanced Modeling (SEAM) project, by the National Science Foundation under awards 0620821 and 0714193, and by the sponsors of The Rice Inversion Project. The IWAVE project owes a great deal to several open source seismic software packages (Seismic Un*x, SEPlib, Madagascar), debts which we gratefully acknowledge. The author wishes to record his special gratitude to Sergey Fomel, the architect of Madagascar, for his inspiring ideas and his generous and crucial help in the integration of IWAVE into Madagascar.