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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050114032 | Seismic data interpolation system Seismic traces of 3D surveys are interpolated using polynomials in 4D space from a less densely sampled real data set of source points S(x,y) and receiver points R(x,y). Input seismic traces should be pre-processed by normal move out (NMO) and static corrections. Input ... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050102105 | Vibration generator for seismic applications The invention relates to a vibration generator for seismic applications comprised of a housing, in which are accommodated coils activated with AC current or electric pulses, and which is coupled to the object to be investigated via coupling elements. The invention addre... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050090988 | Apparatus and method for displaying subsurface anomalies and surface features The present invention provides a method of combining various types of data and software in order to arrive at a composite graphical representation of a construction site, including surface and subsurface features. A 2-D or 3-D graph of subsurface contoured surfaces is c... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050090989 | Method for downward extrapolation of pre-stack seismic data A set of pre-stack seismic data is downward extrapolated, by first determining a migration interval in the seismic data set. A maximum error criterion is selected for the migration interval. A maximum relative error in phase calculated as a function of frequency, propag... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050090987 | Method of and an apparatus for processing seismic data A method of and an apparatus for processing seismic data A method is provided of processing multi-component seismic data acquired by emitting multi-component seismic energy at a source location and acquiring seismic data at a multi-component seismic receiver located at ... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050086005 | Method for determining formation quality factor from seismic data A method is disclosed for calculating the quality factor Q from a seismic data trace. The method includes calculating a first and a second minimum phase inverse wavelet at a first and a second time interval along the seismic data trace, synthetically dividing the first ... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050086006 | Methods and systems for interactive investigation of geophysical data Methods and systems are provided for investigating an image set of geophysical data distributed over a first N-dimensional volume where N≧2. A subvolume that encloses a known feature of interest within a target set of geophysical data distributed over a second N-dimen... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050075790 | Method for processing seismic data to identify anomalous absorption zones A method is disclosed for identifying zones anomalously absorptive of seismic energy. The method includes jointly time-frequency decomposing seismic traces, low frequency bandpass filtering the decomposed traces to determine a general trend of mean frequency and bandwid... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050060097 | ILLUMINATION MONITORING PROCESS FOR MAKING INFILL DECISIONS In a seismic survey, idealized subsurface illumination is generated using idealized survey data. Then, the following three steps are performed during each of a sequence of time intervals during the seismic survey. First, an incremental portion of actual survey data is c... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060099 | Methods and systems for determining the orientation of natural fractures Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for determining the orientation of natural fractures in the Earth resulting from hydraulic fracturing treatment. Data attribute information from a far-field point-source signal p... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050060098 | Methods for calculating the voltage induced in a device Methods are disclosed for calculating the amount of voltage coupled to a device. In some embodiments, the method may comprise identifying a conductor that is coupled to a device, extracting information regarding the relationship between the conductor coupled to the devi... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050055164 | Concurrent phase angle graphic analysis Waveform data, such as reflection seismic data, is filtered by concurrently analyzing various phase angles of the data. The various phase angles of the data are compared to phase rotated background trends and the phase angle producing the maximum deviation from the equi... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050038605 | Method and apparatus for contemporaneous utilization of a higher order probe in pre-stack and post-stack seismic domains A method for contemporaneously utilizing seismic data in the pre-stack seismic domain and the post-stack seismic domain is disclosed. The method includes initiating a higher order probe at a three-dimensional coordinate in a post-stack seismic volume; and instantiating ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050038606 | System and method for determining an azimuth of a seismic energy source The invention is a method of geophysical exploration using seismic methods. The receivers and the source are rotated to one another, such that the orthogonal excitations of the seismic source are readily differentiated. The differentiation of the differently excited ene... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050038604 | Method and apparatus for kinematically linking multiple seismic domains A method and apparatus for utilizing seismic data contemporaneously across multiple seismic domains is disclosed. The method comprises kinematically linking a first point in a set of seismic data having at least three-dimensions in a first seismic domain with a second p... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050033519 | Seismic measuring system including GPS receivers A system for analyzing three-dimensional seismic data includes a plurality of digitizer units, each with a configuration of geophones, a data recording and control center, a base GPS receiver with an associated antenna with a substantially unrestricted view of the sky a... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050033518 | Method for wavelet-based seismic amplitude inversion A seismic data set comprising a plurality of time samples is selected for wavelet-based seismic amplitude inversion. A plurality of time windows in the seismic data set are selected. A reflectivity is determined for each time window, using the time samples within the ti... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050027453 | Techniques for surface exploration and monitoring Techniques for surface exploration and monitoring are presented. In representative embodiments, a system is provided that can perform multiple types of measurements of a surface. For example a single system of survey probes and one or more survey controllers can be used... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050027452 | System and method for interpreting repeated surfaces A method of managing a repeated surface comprising seismic data as one surface is disclosed where a plurality of horizons is analyzed and a determination made as to which of the plurality of horizons comprise a repeated surface. Those horizons which comprise the repeate... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050010367 | System and method for accessing and analyzing previous generations of seismic data A system and method for uniquely identifying seismic data sets, wherein the system and method associate a unique seismic data set identifier with a seismic data set, wherein the unique seismic data set identifier identifies the seismic data set by being different from a... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050010366 | Instantaneous spectral analysis A method of seismic data processing is described in which a particular wavelet is selected from a plurality of wavelets as being most characteristic of a received seismic signal. A subtracted signal can be determined by subtracting a weighted signal of the particular wa... | 01/13/2005 |
