To help geologists in interpreting seismic data, we proposed in a previous article to perform directional filtering using oversampled complex lapped transforms. This 2D transform is extended in this paper to L dimensions, thus allowing to process 3D seismic data. We also propose a method to evaluate the relative importance of different orientations in seismic data. This evaluation is used to re...

Extracting fault, unconformity, and horizon surfaces from a seismic image is useful for interpretation of geologic structures and stratigraphic features. Although interpretation of these surfaces has been automated to some extent by others, significant manual effort is still required for extracting each type of these geologic surfaces. I propose methods to automatically extract all the fault, u...

Finite difference is a simple, fast and effective numerical method for seismic wave modeling, and has been widely used in forward waveform inversion and reverse time migration. However, intensive calculation of three-dimensional seismic forward modeling has been restricting the industrial application of 3D pre-stack reverse time migration and inversion. Aiming at this problem, in this paper, a ...

Aseismic safety of dam involves people’s lives and properties, even has a great impact on national economic development. The key to this project is to have a fairly complete fluid-structure interaction (FSI) theory and a calculation method with a good accuracy. Therefore, focused on the FSI dynamic problem of gravity dam under seismic action, this paper presented the non-linear 2.5D dynamic the...

In this paper, we present a methodology for interpreting faults from three dimensional seismic data. Faults are individual fractures across which there are visible offsets of horizons (or rock layers). 3D seismic data images of subsurface structure generated by reflecting seismic waves off rock layers have been used for hypothesizing subsurface structures. Since interpretation of seismic data i...

The improved quality and dense sampling of 3-D seismic data has greatly increased the e ectiveness of attribute analysis for seismic interpretation. The availability of seismic attribute images and cubes can greatly facilitate the interpretation of large and complex data volumes. Many seismic attributes that are currently in use are based on parameters that bring forward changes of signal chara...

We present an overview of the present knowledge of the Earth’s lower mantle 3D structure, as currently obtained owing to progress, in the last ten years, in seismic tomography as well as forward modelling of seismic travel times and waveforms. We discuss constraints that seismic modelling brings to the debate concerning major geodynamical questions, in particular the issue of global ‘1 layer’ o...

Introduction: The Silverpit impact structure was discovered during 2001 on three-dimensional (3D) seismic data obtained during routine hydrocarbon exploration in the southern North Sea [1]. It is now known that five commercially-acquired 3D seismic datasets partially cover the structure and approximately 80% of Silverpit is imaged by high-resolution 3D data (Figure 1). Two boreholes had been dr...

I present a frequency-independent 3D seismic attenuation model (indicated by Q−1 P ) for the crust of the Salton trough and the adjacent regions in southeastern southern California. The simul2000 tomographic algorithm was used to invert the frequency-independent attenuation operator t values measured from amplitude spectra of 23,378 P-wave arrivals of 1203 events through a recently developed 3D...