leff%smu@csnet-relay.UUCP.UUCP (01/29/87)
January 28, 1987, 1:30PM, 315SIC Computer Science Department, Southern Methodist Univeristy, Dallas, Texas AUTOMATION IN SEISMIC INTERPRETATION Bruce Flinchbaugh Texas Instruments ABSTRACT Interpreting three-dimensional seismic data is important for oil and gas exploration. Part of the problem is perception-intensive (experts spend much of their time looking at the data), and part of the problem is more cognition-intensive (experts reconcile perceived structures with knowledge of plausible geology and other sources of information). This talk will present a simple overview of the seismic data acquisition and processing required to produce three-dimensional seismic data volumes. Then a variety of tools for assisting in the interpretation of the data will be discussed. For the most part today's useful tools are aimed at solving the perception-intensive problems. Finally some open problems in seismic interpretation will be described. BIOGRAPHY Dr. Flinchbaugh is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at T.I. in the Computer Science Center Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he is currently tackling semiconductor manufacturing automation problems. Also at T.I. he has invented techniques assisting in the processing and structural interpretation of three-dimensional seismic data. Previous research in artificial intelligence, at M.I.T. and The Ohio State University, addressed computational vision problems involving the interpretation of motion and color. Dr. Flinchbaugh received his Ph.D. in computer and information science from The Ohio State University in 1980.