Comparison of four approaches to a rock facies classification problem

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 599-617

  Dubois, Martin K ^a   Bohling, Geoffrey C ^a   Chakrabarti, Swapan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Facies classification; Fuzzy logic; Geologic model; Nearest neighbor; Neural network; Panoma

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLOGY;

FACIES CLASSIFICATION; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR; ROCK FACIES;

CORE ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CORE ANALYSIS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FACIES ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GAS FIELD; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; ROCK MECHANICS;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34047141566     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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