Seismic Data Analysis

Seismic Data Analysis

Series	Investigations in Geophysics
Author	Öz Yilmaz
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/1.9781560801580
ISBN	ISBN 978-1-56080-094-1
Store	SEG Online Store

Öz Yilmaz has expanded his original work on processing to include inversion and interpretation of seismic data. In addition to the developments in all aspects of conventional processing, this content represents a comprehensive and complete coverage of the modern trends in the seismic industry-from time to depth, from 3-D to 4-D, from 4-D to 4-C, and from isotropy to anisotropy.

As technology evolves and advances, help us keep this valuable contribution to geophysics up-to-date by making your own contributions that reflect the latest science of seismic data analysis and applied geophysics.

"A geophysicist, who practices seismic data processing, inversion, and interpretation, would want to have a quick reference under his/her fingertips for the theory and practice of all processing methods and algorithms, for determining an optimum processing sequence with optimum parameters for each step --- whether it is for AVO inversion or for earth imaging in time and depth. Now, via SEG Wiki, you can access Seismic Data Analysis to obtain the information you need." - Oz Yilmaz, August 2014

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Introduction

• Introduction to seismic data analysis
• Processing of seismic data
• Inversion of seismic data
• Interpretation of seismic data
• From seismic exploration to seismic monitoring

Fundamentals of signal processing

• Introduction to fundamentals of signal processing
• The 1-D Fourier transform
• The 2-D Fourier transform
• Worldwide assortment of shot records
• Gain applications
• Basic data processing sequence
• Exercises
• A mathematical review of the Fourier transform

Deconvolution

• Introduction to deconvolution
• The convolutional model
• Inverse filtering
• Optimum Wiener filters
• Predictive deconvolution in practice
• Field data examples
• The problem of nonstationarity
• Exercises
• Mathematical foundation of deconvolution

Velocity analysis and statics corrections

• Introduction to velocity analysis and statics corrections
• Normal moveout
• Velocity analysis
• Residual statics corrections
• Refraction statics corrections
• Exercises
• Topics in moveout and statics corrections

Migration

• Introduction to migration
• Migration principles
• Kirchhoff migration in practice
• Finite-difference migration in practice
• Frequency-space migration in practice
• Frequency-wavenumber migration in practice
• Further aspects of migration in practice
• Exercises
• Mathematical foundation of migration

Dip-moveout correction and prestack migration

• Introduction to dip-moveout correction and prestack migration
• Principles of dip-moveout correction
• Dip-moveout correction in practice
• Prestack time migration
• Migration velocity analysis
• Exercises
• Topics in Dip-Moveout Correction and Prestack Time Migration

Noise and multiple attenuation

• Introduction to noise and multiple attenuation
• Multiple attenuation in the CMP domain
• Frequency-wavenumber filtering
• The slant-stack transform
• The Radon transform
• Linear uncorrelated noise attenuation
• Exercises
• Multichannel filtering techniques for noise and multiple attenuation

3-D seismic exploration

• Introduction to 3-D seismic exploration
• 3-D survey design and acquisition
• Processing of 3-D seismic data
• 3-D poststack migration
• 3-D prestack time migration
• Interpretation of 3-D seismic data
• Exercises
• Mathematical foundation of 3-D migration

Earth imaging in depth

• Introduction to earth imaging in depth
• Layer replacement
• 2-D poststack depth migration
• 2-D prestack depth migration
• 3-D poststack depth migration
• 3-D prestack depth migration
• Exercises
• Diffraction and ray theory for wave propagation

Earth modeling in depth

• Introduction to earth modeling in depth
• Models with horizontal layers
• Model with low-relief structure
• Model with complex overburden structure
• Model building
• Model updating
• Exercises
• Data modeling by inversion

Structural inversion

• Introduction to structural inversion
• Subsalt imaging in the North Sea
• Subsalt imaging in the Gulf of Mexico
• Imaging beneath irregular water bottom in the Northwest Shelf of Australia
• Imaging beneath volcanics in the West of the Shetlands of the Atlantic Margin
• Imaging beneath shallow gas anomalies in the Gulf of Thailand
• 3-D structural inversion applied to seismic data from the Southern North Sea
• 3-D structural inversion applied to seismic data from the Central North Sea
• 3-D structural inversion applied to seismic data from offshore Indonesia
• 3-D structural inversion applied to seismic data from the Northeast China
• Exercises
• Seismic modeling

Reservoir geophysics

• Introduction to reservoir geophysics
• Seismic resolution
• Analysis of amplitude variation with offset
• Acoustic impedance estimation
• Vertical seismic profiling
• 4-D seismic method
• 4-C seismic method
• Seismic anisotropy
• Exercises
• Mathematical foundation of elastic wave propagation