Latest developments in seismic texture analysis for subsurface structure, facies, and reservoir characterization: A review

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Gao, Dengliang ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GEOLOGIC INTERPRETATION; GRAY LEVEL CO OCCURRENCE MATRIX(GLCM); LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC FACIES CLASSIFICATION; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL HISTOGRAM;

TEXTURES;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE; DATA INTERPRETATION; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84857240037     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3553479     Document Type: Article

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