Automated tools within workflows for 3D structural construction from surface and subsurface data

GeoInformatica

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 291-304

  Fernandez, O ^a,c   Jones, S ^a   Armstrong, N ^a   Johnson, G ^a,d   Ravaglia, A ^a,e   Munoz J A ^b  

^a Osbourne House   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Roxar ASA   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e PetroSA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dip domain; Isopach; Orientationanalysis; Structural modeling

Indexed keywords

3-D SEISMIC SURVEY; 3D GEOLOGICAL MODEL; 3D MODELS; AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATED TOOLS; DATA SETS; DIP-DOMAIN; GEOLOGICAL CONTACT; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; HIGH-DENSITY; ISOPACH; MULTIPLE AUTHORS; ORIENTATIONANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORKS; STRUCTURAL MODELING; SUBSURFACE DATA; SURFACE DATA; TIME EFFICIENCIES; WORK-FLOWS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUTOMATION; DATA SET; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; ISOPACH MAP; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 67349160142     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-008-0059-y     Document Type: Article

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