Detection and extraction of fault surfaces in 3D seismic data

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Cohen, Israel ^a   Coult, Nicholas ^b   Vassiliou, Anthony A ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b GeoEnergy Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Faulting; Feature extraction

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; VISUALIZATION;

FAULT SURFACES; LOCAL-FAULT-EXTRACTION (LFE); SEISMIC DATA;

SEISMOLOGY;

DETECTION METHOD; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 33748054504     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2215357     Document Type: Article

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