AVO & Attributes - Seismic - Technology

RSI offers its clients a full complement of prestack (AVO and Inversion) and poststack (Hilbert Transform) attributes.
Reconnaissance exploration objectives are often met using a combination of the following attributes :

 

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Prestack (AVO and Inversion) Attributes
  • P-wave Impedance Reflectivity
  • S-wave Impedance Reflectivity
  • P-wave Velocity Reflectivity
  • S-wave Velocity Reflectivity
  • Pseudo-Poisson’s Reflectivity
  • Fluid Factor
  • Intercept
  • Gradient
  • Elastic Impedance Reflectivity
  • Lambda-Rho Reflectivity
  • Mu-Rho Reflectivity
 
poststack (Hilbert Transform) Attributes:
GABOR-MORLET ATTRIBUTES
  • Envelope of Sub Bands
  • Phase of Sub Bands
  • Trace of Sub Bands
  • Spectral Balance
  • Band limited Relative Acoustic Impedance
  • Mean Frequency of Spectra
  • RMS Frequency of Spectra
  • Band Width of Spectra
  • Skewness of Spectra
  • Kurtosis of Spectra
  • Maximum Subband of Envelope
  • Frequency of Maximum Subband Envelope
  • Phase of Maximum Subband Envelope
  • Q by Frequency Shift
  • Q by Spectral Ratio
  • Anomalous Absorption
  • High Absorption Low Impedance
  • High Absorption High Impedance
  • Low Absorption Low Impedance
  • Low Absorption High Impedance
INSTANTANEOUS ATTRIBUTES
  • Real part of complex trace
  • Imaginary part of complex trace
  • Trace envelope
  • Time derivative of the envelope
  • Second derivative of envelope
  • Instantaneous phase (between ± 180 degrees)
  • Instantaneous frequency
  • Envelope weighted instantaneous frequency (Hz)
  • Thin bed indicator
  • Acceleration of phase (cycles/sec/sec)
  • Dominant frequency (cycles per second)
  • Band width (given in octaves)
  • Instantaneous Q factor
  • Normalized amplitude (cosine of the instantaneous phase)
  • Envelope amplitude modulated phase
  • Relative acoustic impedance

GEOMETRICAL ATTRIBUTES
  • Event Continuity
  • Sand/Shale Ratio
  • Chaotic Reflection
  • Parallel Bedding Indicator
  • Zone of Unconformity
  • Dip of maximum similarity
  • Dip Variance (average-local)
  • Similarity
  • Smoothed Similarity
  • Similarity Variance (average-local)
  • Smoothed dip of maximum similarity
  • Instantaneous dip
  • Instantaneous lateral continuity
  • Dip azimuth
  • Upper Bed Thickness (msec)
  • Upper Amplitude of Max Bed Thickness
  • Upper Morphology
  • Middle Bed Thickness (msec)
  • Middle Amplitude of Max Bed Thickness
  • Middle Morphology
  • Lower Bed Thickness (msec)
  • Lower Amplitude of Max Bed Thickness
  • Lower Morphology
  • Mean Curvature
  • Maximum Curvature
  • Minimum Curvature
  • Gaussian Curvature
  • Most Negative Curvature
  • Most Positive Curvature
  • Dip Curvature
  • Strike Curvature
WAVELET ATTRIBUTES
  • Wavelet envelope
  • Time derivative of the wavelet envelope
  • Second derivative of wavelet envelope
  • Wavelet phase (between ± 180 degrees)
  • Wavelet frequency
  • Envelope weighted wavelet frequency (Hz)
  • Acceleration of phase (cycles/sec/sec)
  • Dominate frequency (cycles per second)
  • Band width (given in octaves)
  • Wavelet Q factor
  • Apparent polarity of wavelet