Multidimensional attribute analysis and pattern recognition for seismic interpretation

doi:10.1016/0031-3203(85)90010-X

Pattern Recognition

Volume 18, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 391-399

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Abstract

The interpretation of exploration seismic data to infer the probable locations of commercial quantities of hydrocarbons has deep roots in pattern analysis. In this paper we suggest a broad-based program or framework for treating the interpretation of seismic data as a problem or a collection of many problems in pattern recognition.

The basis for this approach is the identification of a large number of objective or quantitative attributes which may be combined in a variety of ways via pattern analysis to infer the information necessary to accurately interpret exploration seismic data, and to locate potentially commercial hydrocarbon reservoirs.

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Multidimensional attribute analysis and pattern recognition for seismic interpretation

Abstract

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Seismic stratigraphy and global changes of sea level. Part 6: stratigraphic interpretation of seismic reflection patterns in depositional sequences

Interpretation of depositional facies from seismic data

Geophysics

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Array processing in exploration seismology

Complex seismic trace analysis

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Geophysics

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Soc. Petrol. Engrs. J.