Communications – electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices – Seismic prospecting – Land-reflection type
Patent
1992-07-23
1993-10-05
Lobo, Ian J.
Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
Seismic prospecting
Land-reflection type
367 73, G01V 130
Patent
active
052511847
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus of rapidly generating horizon maps from a three dimensional volume of seismic traces is disclosed. During batch processing of the digital data representing trace wavelets, "1"'s are "0"'s are determined for each seismic trace of the volume. A bit volume is produced of which a "1" at a depth of a trace indicates that a horizon exists at that depth and at other depths of "1"'s of adjacent traces which are within a predetermined depth. In a real time mode, an explorationist selects a seed point thereby identifying a "1" on a particular trace at a particular depth. An automatic scanning procedure finds all other "1"'s at depths of adjacent traces. Each found "1" of adjacent traces is redesignated a seed point and the process is continued until no more "1"'s can be found. A horizon map is created from the depths of each found "1". An alternative method and apparatus is disclosed by which such bit volume is replaced with a compressed trace volume where each bit of the bit volume is replaced with a numerical value corresponding to the precise depth location of the attribute extremum represented by the bit. Such depth values are stored consecutively to form compressed traces. Interpolation of wavelets to find maximum or minimum attributes of such wavelets identifies depths above or below a bit of the bit volume which allows the production of an interpolated compressed trace volume.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4727488 (1988-02-01), Flinchbaugh
patent: 5056066 (1991-10-01), Howard
patent: 5153858 (1992-10-01), Hildebrand
Alam Aftab
Caragounis Peter
Hildebrand Harold A.
Landmark Graphics Corporation
Lobo Ian J.
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