The RANSAC Method for Generating Fracture Networks from Micro-seismic Event Data

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-224

  Fadakar Alghalandis, Younes ^a   Dowd, Peter A ^a   Xu, Chaoshui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conditional modeling; Fracture network modeling; Line plane detection; Point cloud; RANSAC

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL WELLS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SEISMOLOGY;

CONDITIONAL MODELS; CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; FRACTURE NETWORK MODELS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POINT CLOUD; RANSAC; THREE DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE;

FRACTURE;

DATA SET; FRACTURE; GEODYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

CAPSICUM CHINENSE;

EID: 84874240575     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-012-9439-9     Document Type: Article

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