Estimation of reservoir properties from seismic data by smooth neural networks

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1969-1983

  Saggaf, MM ^a   Toksöz, M Nafi ^b   Mustafa, H M ^a  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; ROCKS; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

RESERVOIR PROPERTIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL SEISMIC SURVEYS; 3-D SEISMIC SURVEY; BACKPROPAGATION NETWORK; CROSS-VALIDATION TESTS; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR POROSITY; RESERVOIR PROPERTY; RESERVOIR ROCK PROPERTIES;

SEISMOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DATA PROCESSING; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 0347355325     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1635051     Document Type: Article

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