Chondrons form the fundamental biomechanical and metabolic unit of articular cartilage. But there is no accurate description of chondron volume which is known to change when articular cartilage is functionally loaded. This report discusses the 3D feature analysis of the confocal microscopy images of chondrons. The basic principle of confocal microscopy is described. The segmentation problem of ...

Modern seismic sensors are capable of recording high precision vibration data continuously for several months. Seismic raw data consists of information regarding earthquake’s origin time, location, wave velocity, etc. Currently, these high volume data are gathered manually from each station for analysis. This process restricts us from obtaining high-resolution images in real-time. A new in-netw...

We present results of the application of the wavelet transform method to seismic imaging. The objective of this research is to develop 3D seismic Kirchhoff imaging in the wavelet-transform domain, making use of the time-frequency property of wavelets. We propose to migrate the wavelets as units rather than single samples as in conventional Kirchhoff migration implementation. In practice, the wa...

Seismic data are recorded and commonly interpreted in vertical two-way time; well logs, measured in depth, must be tied to seismic using a time-depth curve. However, well ties contain a large amount of uncertainty due to errors in the generation of synthetic seismograms and manual matching of synthetic seismograms to seismic traces. Using dynamic time warping, a fast algorithm that optimally al...

We are currently developing a high model fidelity HyperSpectral Image simulation software package. It is based on a Direct Simulation Monte Carlo approach for modeling 3D atmospheric radiative transport, as well as spatially inhomogeneous surfaces including surface BRDF effects. “Ground truth” is accurately known through input specification of surface and atmospheric properties, and it is pract...

In this paper we present a novel technique for micro-seismic localization using a group sparse penalization that is robust to the focal mechanism of the source and requires only a velocity model of the stratigraphy rather than a full Green's function model of the earth's response. In this technique we construct a set of perfect delta detector responses, one for each detector in the array, to a ...

Texture attributes describe the spatial arrangement of neighboring amplitudes values within a given analysis window. We chose a statistical texture classification method, the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), and its derived attributes, to produce a semiautomated description of the spatial arrangement of seismic facies. The GLCM is a measure of how often different combinations of neighbor...

ActiveCube is a novel device that allows a user to construct and interact with a 3D environment by using cubes with a bi-directional user interface. A computer recognizes the 3D structure of connected cubes in real time by utilizing the real-time communication network among cubes. Also, ActiveCube is equipped with both input and output devices, at where the user expects to be, and this makes th...

Land multicomponent seismic has garnered significant attention and demonstrated substantial growth in the last five years. The bulk of this growth in multicomponent activity has been in western Canada. While multicomponent seismic has been around for many years, historical cost and quality concerns have limited its use as a routine exploration tool. The current resurgence of multicomponent seis...

Shear-wave velocity ( ) is an important parameter used for site characterization in geotechnical engineering. However, dispersion curve inversion is challenging for most inversion methods due to its high non-linearity and mix-determined trait. In order to overcome these problems, in this study, a joint inversion strategy is proposed based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The ...