From the broad field of seismology, a few things seem to pop up with regularity. Some of these have been collected here. Keep them in mind when working with seismic data—in particular, 3-D seismic data.
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From the broad field of seismology, a few things seem to pop up with regularity. Some of these have been collected here. Keep them in mind when working with [[seismic data]]—in particular, 3-D seismic data.
==The onion==
==The onion==
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==Event tracking==
==Event tracking==
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A key part of the interpretation process for 3-D seismic data is event tracking. To picture this, think of the [[3-D seismic: the data cube|3-D seismic data volume]] as a block of vanilla ice cream with chocolate streaks. Tracking means we follow a streak into the cube and find out where it goes—this is [[Seismic structure map|structure mapping]]. We also keep track of how dark the chocolate is as we follow it—this is [[amplitude map]]ping.
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A key part of the interpretation process for 3-D [[seismic data]] is event tracking. To picture this, think of the [[3-D seismic: the data cube|3-D seismic data volume]] as a block of vanilla ice cream with chocolate streaks. Tracking means we follow a streak into the cube and find out where it goes—this is [[Seismic structure map|structure mapping]]. We also keep track of how dark the chocolate is as we follow it—this is [[amplitude map]]ping.