Smoothing along structures apparent in seismic images can enhance these structural features while preserving important discontinuities such as faults or channels. Filters appropriate for such smoothing must seamlessly adapt to variations in the orientation and coherence of image features. I describe an implementation of smoothing filters that does this and is both computationally efficient and ...

Perimeter-defense operations, geohazard assessment, and engineering characterization require the detection and localization of subsurface anomalies. Seismic waves incident upon these discontinuities generate a scattered wavefield. We have developed various surface-wave techniques, currently being fielded, that have consistently delivered accurate and precise results across a wide range of surve...

limited seismic data quality and complex tectonics make for less than ideal interpretation conditions. however, modern geometric attributes including coherency has shown to be effective in showing the lateral extents of subtle and small-scale geologic features not usually visible in conventional seismic sections. this geometric attributes are better suited than some older generation seismic att...

Geophysical observations from the 2011 moment magnitude (M(w)) 9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake allow exploration of a rare large event along a subduction megathrust. Models for this event indicate that the distribution of coseismic fault slip exceeded 50 meters in places. Sources of high-frequency seismic waves delineate the edges of the deepest portions of coseismic slip and do not simply cor...

Seismicity along continental transform faults is usually confined to the upper half of the crust, but the Newport-Inglewood fault (NIF), a major fault traversing the Los Angeles basin, is seismically active down to the upper mantle. We use seismic array analysis to illuminate the seismogenic root of the NIF beneath Long Beach, California, and identify seismicity in an actively deforming localiz...

For the safe development and utilization of hot dry rock resources, it is essential to understand distribution characteristics underground faults. However, commonly used reflection attribute analysis method has an insufficient resolution, diffraction affected by multiple solutions. Moreover, both are highly dependent on interpreters’ experience take a long time. Therefore, based classical U-Net...

seismic attribute is a quantitative measure of an interested seismic characteristic. there are several seismic attributes. in recent years, time-frequency (tf) attributes have been developed which to reach them, tf analyzing of seismic data is required. a high resolution tf representation (tfr) can yield more accurate tf attributes. there are several tfr methods including short-time fourier tra...

Optimal reservoir management requires reliable reservoir performance forecasts with as little uncertainty as possible. There is a need for improved techniques for dynamic data intergration to construct realistic reservoir models by using geostatistical techniques. This paper gives a method to create porosity models that honor interpreted pore volumes from well test data. Well porosity data, sei...

Today, the major challenge in reservoir characterization is integrating data coming from different sources in varying scales, in order to obtain an accurate and high-resolution reservoir model. The role of seismic data in this integration is often limited to providing a structural model for the reservoir. Its relatively low resolution usually limits its further use. However, its areal coverage ...

many steps of seismic data processing sequence suppose that data sets are sampled in time and spatial dimensions uniformly. today, this assumption is true but only in time dimension. modern seismic exploration equipment permits seismic data sets to be sampled uniformly and densely in time dimension. however, along spatial dimension uniform and dense sampling are not possible because of operatin...