Fault surface detection in 3-D seismic data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2094-2101

  Gibson, David ^a   Spann, Michael ^a   Turner, Jonathan ^a   Wright, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault surfaces; Geological faulting; Seismic image processing

Indexed keywords

FAULT SURFACES; GEOLOGICAL FAULTING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EID: 27744502975     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.852769     Document Type: Article

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