Identification of lithofacies using Kohonen self-organizing maps

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 223-229

  Chang, Hsien Cheng ^a   Kopaska Merkel, David C ^b   Chen, Hui Chuan ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^b Geological Survey of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate rocks; Neural networks; Paleoenvironmental energy; Well log

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; LITHOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

COMPUTERS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; LITHOFACIES; MAPPING; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0036498945     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(01)00067-X     Document Type: Article

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