Volume texture extraction for 3D seismic visualization and interpretation

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1294-1302

  Gao, Dengliang ^a  

^a MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GEOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STRATIGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; DATA VISUALIZATION; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HYDROCARBON REFINING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PIXELS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

SEISMIC VISUALIZATION; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; GRAY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SEISMIC INTERPRETATION; SEISMIC VISUALIZATIONS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TWO DIMENSIONAL (2D) IMAGE;

SEISMOLOGY; IMAGE TEXTURE;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TEXTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 0141449154     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1598122     Document Type: Article

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