Self-organizing maps for lithofacies identification and permeability prediction

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3687-3694

  Stundner, Michael ^a   Oberwinkler, Christian ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

CORE MEASUREMENTS; LITHOFACIES IDENTIFICATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; TWO-LAYERED STRUCTURES;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 22044446940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/90720-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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