Lithologic characterization of a reservoir using continuous-wavelet transforms

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-65

  Álvarez, Giselle ^a   Sansó, Bruno ^a,b   Michelena, Reinaldo J ^c   Jiménez, Juan Ramón ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistical methods; Continuous wavelet transform; Lithology classification

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PETROLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMIC WAVES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BAYESIAN STATISTICAL METHODS; CONTINUOUS-WAVELET TRANSFORMS; LITHOLOGY CLASSIFICATION;

LITHOLOGY;

EID: 0037241827     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808065     Document Type: Article

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