Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences,

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Geographix Software Interpretation Suits

M. S (Geophysics)

By Instructor
M. Hammad Manzoor

April 22 2016 (Friday) Lecture # 7

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Seisvision

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Objectives
• Introduction
• Creating a Discovery Project
• Loading SEG-Y Data
• Building an Interpretation
• Displaying Seismic Data
• Balancing Data and Calculating Velocity
• Interpreting 2D Data

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Objectives
• Mapping 2D Data & Depth Conv
• Attaching 3D Seismic
• Interpreting 3D Seismic
• Restoring an Archived Project
• Interpreting Structural Features
• Converting from Time to Depth
• Interpreting Stratigraphic Features

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Objectives
• Mapping Seismic Interpretations
• Integrating Geological and Geophysical Interpretations
• Integrating LogM Well Editor with the SeisVision
Interpretation
• Interpretating Multiple Z-valued Horizons

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Introduction
• SeisVision is the most powerful 2D and 3D seismic
interpretation and mapping software package available
for use with Microsoft Windows®.

• SeisVision provides an intuitive user interface

optimized for loading SEG-Y format data sets, and
interactive viewing and picking of time horizons on 2D
seismic sections and 3D inlines and crosslines.

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Introduction
• SeisVision offers sophisticated, yet intuitive, fault
interpretation, velocity interpretation based on well
control, and real time depth conversion.
Depth/thickness data can be rapidly generated from
re­flection events, allowing the geo­physicist to
exchange data with the geologist and prepare surface
models integrating all of the data.

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Introduction
• Presentation-quality maps, timeslices, and seismic
sections can be generated in SeisVision, or layers and
metafiles can be easily imported for display into
GeoAtlas.

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Seisvision
Loading 2D SegY data

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Loading 2D and 3D SEG-Y Data

• The first step in creating a seismic interpretation is
generally to convert SEG-Y data to .2ds (for 2D data)
and/or .3ds (for 3D data) format that can be used in
SeisVision

• The resultant .2ds/.3ds files can be stored at any

location on an individual computer or in the network
environment during data loading.

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Loading 2D and 3D SEG-Y Data

• Moosehead, was created in ProjectExplorer. The
Moosehead project has both 2D and 3D seismic data
available in SEG-Y format. SeisVision has two SEG-Y
load wizards, one for 2D and one for 3D data, to assist
you with loading the seismic data.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data

• Activate SeisVision by clicking on the SeisVision
window.
• SeisVision will appear with the active project
Moosehead displayed in the title bar.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data

• Select Load Seismic >> Load 2D Data from the
menu bar in SeisVision to launch the 2D SEG-Y
Load Wizard.

• In the 2D SEG-Y Load Wizard – Step 1 of 5, click

the Browse button to open the Select SEG-Y Files
dialog box.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data

• Click the down arrow in the Look in list box to find the
Moosehead SEG-Y files for import.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data

• Click the down arrow in the Look in list box to find the
Moosehead SEG-Y files for import.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data

• Highlight all four SEG-Y files. Select the first one then
hold down the Shift key and select the last one so that
they are all highlighted as shown below.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data
• As long as all SEG-Y files in the directory are in the
same format, they can all be converted to 2ds format
during the same file loading process. Move all SEG-Y
files to the List of Selections list box using the double
left-arrow button

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data
Step 1
• For Input Device, select Disk File.
• If SEG-Y data are stored on tape, the Tape-to-Disk
option allows the transfer of data to disk before import.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data

• Step 2.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data
• Confirm the following values:
• Number of Samples/Trace is set to 1000
• Sample Interval is set to 2000
• Units is set to Microseconds
• The Byte Swap Input SEG-Y File checkbox is checked
• Set the Actual Start Time of Input (in ms) to 0
• Set the Start Time of Output (ms) to 0
• Set the End Time of Output (ms) to 2000. Data Domain
is set to Time
• Data Type set to Amplitude

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data

• Click the Character Header button on the left side of

the Step 2 dialog box to open the SEG-Y Character
Line Header dialog box.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data
• Click Next to advance to Step 3 of the 2D SEG-Y Load
Wizard, enter the following values:

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data
• Click Next to advance to Step 4 of the 2D SEG-Y Load
Wizard.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data
• Click Next to advance to Step 5 of the 2D SEG-Y Load
Wizard.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data
In the Scaling group box, the five radio button options are:
• None – SeisVision preserves the amplitudes of the SEG-Y
data set
• RMS – SeisVision will perform trace scaling by calculating
line sample Root Mean Squared trace amplitude.
• Maximum – SeisVision will perform trace scaling by
calculating live sample Maximum trace absolute
amplitude.
• Median – SeisVision will perform trace scaling by
calculating live sample Median (middle sorted) trace
absolute amplitude.
• Mean – SeisVision will perform trace scaling by
calculating line sample Mean (average) trace absolute
amplitude.

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Loading 2D SEG-Y Data
• Click Load to output Moosehead 2ds files to the
project directory. A Successful Load dialog box will
appear when the 2ds files have been successfully
loaded. Click OK to close the Successful Load dialog
box. The 2ds files will be attached to a seismic
interpretation in a later task.

• Click Finish to close the 2d SEG-Y Load Wizard.

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Thanks

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