Application of image analysis techniques to seismic data

Abstract

We show how the techniques of Digital Image Analysis can be efficiently used to help in the interpretation of seismic cross-sections. The problem of automatically finding homogeneous facies is in fact directly tied to Image Processing problems such as edge detection, texture analysis, segmentation and classification. We briefly overview some existing tools, outline some new techniques which had to be invented to cope with the characteristics of seismic signals and demonstrate on many examples the power of our approach.