SeiVis

The geophysical interpretation of seismic measurements is a highly laborious and time-consuming process that can take a human expert months to complete for a single fossil energy reservoir.

Due to the extreme complexity of the problem, manual work is mandatory and cannot be supplanted completely by automatic methods. Therefore, instead of aiming for a fully automatic approach, our goal is to support the expert user (geophysicist), with advanced visualization and visual analysis capabilities in order to decrease the amount of manual work required and significantly decrease the overall time for accurate interpretation of highly complex reservoirs.

The aim of the SEIVIS project is to research, design, and implement a prototype of a novel interactive workflow for the entire process of seismic interpretation including depth conversion, which converts time in sonic measurements to actual spatial depth and is one of the major sources of inaccuracies and reasons for long interpretation times. Furthermore, research on volume visualization methods that are customized for seismic data will be performed.

The resulting system has a big potential for cost savings in the interpretation of seismic data, as well as increasing its accuracy.