scholarly journals Some features of the application of modern software products for seismic modeling in training high-qualification frame

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Smirnov ◽  
Galina V. Prozorova ◽  
Alexandra V. Makarova

The article describes some features of the application of modern software for the full-waveform seismic modeling in the training of students for topqualification level in the specialty «Technology of geological exploration». Seismic modeling is the solution to the building a seismic image of the examined object with the given parameters of the geological model. These parameters are reservoir thickness, velocity and density. Additionally, mentioned software can be applied for modeling both seismograms and time sections, cubes for various geological models, and these models can be of any complexity: from rapid lateral changes in velocity to the block structure of the subsurface geology. We show software capabilities in comparison of real and model sections a case study of one of the areas in the territory of Eastern Siberia. This area is characterized by complicated seismic conditions, such as large differences in surface altitudes, abnormally high reservoir pressure, salt layers and various tectonic faults. Conclusions are drawn that modern software can be useful in analysis of reservoir properties.

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 591a1-591a8
Author(s):  
Ahmad Riza Ghazali ◽  
Muhammad Hafizal Mad Zahir ◽  
Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahim ◽  
Kefeng Xin ◽  
Farah Syazana Dzulkefli ◽  
...  

A seismic example from the Malay Basin is presented, demonstrating improved seismic imaging beneath gas clouds using full-wavefield imaging approaches. Overall imaging concepts, synthetic examples, and field implementation strategies are discussed, and results that tie with well information are presented. Seismic imaging beneath gas clouds using the full-wavefield redatuming technique improves the image by estimating the waveform transmission operators via equivalent-medium representation of the overburden from the gas cloud reflection response for use in a form of multidimensional deconvolution of the wavefield. The other example shown uses the full-wavefield migration seismic imaging technique, which utilizes primaries and higher-order multiples as signals to improve the reflectivity estimation in imaging. The demonstrated full-wavefield imaging approach uses information carried by the gas cloud reflection response to correct seismic image distortion. Removing the internal multiple using conventional demultiple processing in the gas cloud area will also remove the valuable information of the subsurface that it carries. Such multiples must be preserved for this method to be successful. The information is translated into transmission operators that are estimated by simulating the reflection response through an effective medium of the gas cloud overburden. The effective medium is obtained via nonlinear full-waveform inversion techniques from the reflections of the gas cloud overburden area. Finally, a deconvolutional process removes the transmission operators from the gas cloud reflections and recovers the underlying reflectors. Full-wavefield imaging can reconstruct the amplitudes of the reflection response below a gas cloud overburden zone so that the complex transmission imprint on the area underneath is removed properly. The Malay Basin field case study shows that implementation of this approach can provide a reliable amplitude image of the subsurface affected by gas clouds, calibrated and verified by the well information.


2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Safoi Babana-Hampton

The essay examines the texts of the two women writers - Leila Abouzeid (from Morocco) and Nawal El Saadawi (from Egypt) - as offering two female perspectives within what is commonly referred to as "feminine" writing in the Arab Muslim world. My main interest is to explore the various discursive articulations of female identity that are challenged or foregrounded as a positive model. The essay points to the serious pitfalls of some feminist narratives in Arab-Muslim societies by dealing with a related problem: the author's setting up of convenient conceptual dichotomies, which account for the female experience, that reduce male-female relationships in the given social context to a fundamentally antagonistic one. Abouzeid's novel will be a case study of a more positive but also realistic and complex perspec­tive on female experience ...


Author(s):  
Ana Guerberof Arenas ◽  
Joss Moorkens ◽  
Sharon O’Brien

AbstractThis paper presents results of the effect of different translation modalities on users when working with the Microsoft Word user interface. An experimental study was set up with 84 Japanese, German, Spanish, and English native speakers working with Microsoft Word in three modalities: the published translated version, a machine translated (MT) version (with unedited MT strings incorporated into the MS Word interface) and the published English version. An eye-tracker measured the cognitive load and usability according to the ISO/TR 16982 guidelines: i.e., effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction followed by retrospective think-aloud protocol. The results show that the users’ effectiveness (number of tasks completed) does not significantly differ due to the translation modality. However, their efficiency (time for task completion) and self-reported satisfaction are significantly higher when working with the released product as opposed to the unedited MT version, especially when participants are less experienced. The eye-tracking results show that users experience a higher cognitive load when working with MT and with the human-translated versions as opposed to the English original. The results suggest that language and translation modality play a significant role in the usability of software products whether users complete the given tasks or not and even if they are unaware that MT was used to translate the interface.


Geoheritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pásková ◽  
J. Zelenka ◽  
T. Ogasawara ◽  
B. Zavala ◽  
I. Astete

AbstractHolistic interpretation of Earth heritage is one of the most important tasks of UNESCO Global geoparks. The ABC (abiotic, biotic, and cultural interconnections) concept is a potential interpretive approach used in Earth heritage popularization through geotourism. Apart of the deeper understanding of this concept, this study explores the application of this concept in selected geoparks. The Colca and Volcanoes Andagua UNESCO Global Geopark (Peru) and Muroto UNESCO Global Geopark (Japan) served as a case study in the frame of this qualitative research conducted during the summer 2019. Results show that the ABC approach is nearly perfectly understood by both geoparks, however there are both internal and external factors which influence the extent and form of how this concept is applied in practice. Except for specific geographical settings, different stages of geopark product development, and different managerial approaches, they mainly include the level of scientific knowledge and general education in the given geopark, as well as level of knowledge management and networking with another UNESCO global geoparks. The more experienced Muroto Geopark interpretation exhibits a comparatively higher level of visible ABC application, while the Colca and Volcanoes Andagua Geopark can benefit in the future from the natural inclination and ability of the local people to integrate the cultural aspects into their Earth heritage interpretation.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sindolfo Miranda Filho ◽  
Julio Melo ◽  
Luiz Eduardo Leite ◽  
Guido Lemos

Context-aware systems are able to monitor and automatically adapt their operation accordingly to the execution context in which they are introduced. Component-based software engineering (CBSE) focuses on the development and reuse of self-contained software assets in order to achieve better productivity and quality. In order to store and retrieve components, CBSE employs component repository systems to provide components to the system developers. This paper presents an active component repository that is able to receive the current configuration from the context-aware system and compute the components and the new architecture that better fit the given context. Since the repository has a wide knowledge of available components, it can better decide which configuration is more suitable to the running system. The repository applies Fuzzy logic algorithm to evaluate the adequacy level of the components and GRASP algorithm to mount the new system architecture. In order to verify the feasibility of our approach, we use a digital TV middleware case study to achieve experimental results.


Geophysics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. U25-U38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno V. da Silva ◽  
Andrew Ratcliffe ◽  
Vetle Vinje ◽  
Graham Conroy

Parameterization lies at the center of anisotropic full-waveform inversion (FWI) with multiparameter updates. This is because FWI aims to update the long and short wavelengths of the perturbations. Thus, it is important that the parameterization accommodates this. Recently, there has been an intensive effort to determine the optimal parameterization, centering the fundamental discussion mainly on the analysis of radiation patterns for each one of these parameterizations, and aiming to determine which is best suited for multiparameter inversion. We have developed a new parameterization in the scope of FWI, based on the concept of kinematically equivalent media, as originally proposed in other areas of seismic data analysis. Our analysis is also based on radiation patterns, as well as the relation between the perturbation of this set of parameters and perturbation in traveltime. The radiation pattern reveals that this parameterization combines some of the characteristics of parameterizations with one velocity and two Thomsen’s parameters and parameterizations using two velocities and one Thomsen’s parameter. The study of perturbation of traveltime with perturbation of model parameters shows that the new parameterization is less ambiguous when relating these quantities in comparison with other more commonly used parameterizations. We have concluded that our new parameterization is well-suited for inverting diving waves, which are of paramount importance to carry out practical FWI successfully. We have demonstrated that the new parameterization produces good inversion results with synthetic and real data examples. In the latter case of the real data example from the Central North Sea, the inverted models show good agreement with the geologic structures, leading to an improvement of the seismic image and flatness of the common image gathers.


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