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Paul Sava is affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering, with a substantial number of publications in specialized subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics within these domains. Their main topics of research include:

  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Underwater Acoustics Research
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Paul Sava has contributed to numerous academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geophysics
  • Second International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • The Planetary Science Journal
  • Acta Astronautica

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on seismic and planetary imaging topics, with publications such as:

  • A synthetic study of acoustic full waveform inversion to improve seismic modelling of firn (2022, Annals of Glaciology)
  • Missing trace reconstruction for 2D land seismic data with randomized sparse sampling (2021, Geophysics)
  • Speckle noise attenuation in orbital laser vibrometer seismology (2020, Acta Astronautica)
  • New Views of the Internal Structure of Planum Boreum from Enhanced 3D Imaging of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Shallow Radar Data (2022, The Planetary Science Journal)
  • Characterising ice slabs in firn using seismic full waveform inversion, a sensitivity study (2023, Journal of Glaciology)

Paul Sava has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Khalid Almuteri
  • Jeffrey Shragge
  • Iga Pawelec
  • Emma Pearce
  • Adam Booth

Best Publications

  • Angle-domain common-image gathers by wavefield continuation methods

    Paul C. Sava;Sergey B Fomel

  • Isotropic angle-domain elastic reverse-time migration

    Jia Yan;Paul Sava

  • Wave-equation migration velocity analysis. I. Theory

    P. Sava;B. Biondi

  • Time-shift imaging condition in seismic migration

    Paul Sava;Sergey B Fomel

  • Offset and angle-domain common image-point gathers for shot-profile migration

    James E. Rickett;Paul C. Sava

  • Elastic wave-mode separation for VTI media

    Jia Yan;Paul Sava

  • Wave‐equation migration velocity analysis

    Biondo Biondi;Paul Sava

  • Extended imaging conditions for wave‐equation migration

    Paul Sava;Ivan Vasconcelos;Ivan Vasconcelos

  • Wave-Equation Migration Velocity Analysis

    P. Sava;B. Biondi

  • Wave‐equation migration velocity analysis. II. Subsalt imaging examples

    P. Sava;B. Biondi

  • Scalar imaging condition for elastic reverse time migration

    Yuting Duan;Paul Sava

  • A Deconvolution-based Objective Function For Wave-equation Inversion

    Simon Luo;Paul Sava

  • Wave-equation migration velocity analysis by focusing diffractions and reflections

    Paul C. Sava;Biondo Biondi;John Etgen

  • Elastic least-squares reverse time migration

    Yuting Duan;Antoine Guitton;Paul Sava

  • Coordinate-independent Angle-gathers For Wave Equation Migration

    Paul Sava;Sergey Fomel

  • Riemannian wavefield extrapolation

    Paul Sava;Sergey B Fomel

  • Improving the efficiency of elastic wave-mode separation for heterogeneous tilted transverse isotropic media

    Jia Yan;Paul Sava

  • Multiple attenuation in the image space

    Paul Sava;Antoine Guitton

  • Amplitude-preserved common image gathers by wave-equation migration

    Paul Sava;Biondo Biondi;Sergey B Fomel

  • Acoustic wavefield imaging using the energy norm

    Daniel Rocha;Nicolay Tanushev;Paul Sava

  • Seismoelectric coupling in unsaturated porous media: theory, petrophysics, and saturation front localization using an electroacoustic approach

    A Revil;G Barnier;M Karaoulis;P Sava

  • Wave-equation migration velocity analysis with time-shift imaging

    Tongning Yang;Paul Sava

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey Fomel
Sergey Fomel The University of Texas at Austin
Biondo Biondi
Biondo Biondi Stanford University
André Revil
André Revil Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Erik Asphaug
Erik Asphaug University of Arizona
Abderrahim Jardani
Abderrahim Jardani University of Rouen
Tariq Alkhalifah
Tariq Alkhalifah King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Robert E. Grimm
Robert E. Grimm Southwest Research Institute
Daniel J. Scheeres
Daniel J. Scheeres University of Colorado Boulder
Roel Snieder
Roel Snieder Colorado School of Mines
Wlodek Kofman
Wlodek Kofman Grenoble Alpes University

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