What is it about?
Integrated imaging implies a combined analysis of multiple geophysical datasets to find the best geologically valid model to fit all the available geophysical datasets. Workshop participants concluded that the best integrated imaging results from the effort of a multi-disciplinary geoscience team communicating via geology.
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Why is it important?
The overall conclusion of the workshop was that the concept of integrated imaging is undervalued in the geophysical community despite applicability throughout the exploration and production life cycle, applicability in diverse geological environments, numerous case studies, and demonstrated added value. This false perception might be addressed through more awareness using case studies illustrating the value to the bottom line of integration with other than seismic and/or potential fields methods.
Perspectives
The key questions of the workshop were: Are we using the right tools and datasets to solve the problems? Do we understand why and how to use them? Can we improve the image, optimize our workflows, and provide results efficiently at lower cost? Nearly 50 participants from industry, academia, and the mining community participated in this workshop. We utilized a rather nontraditional format for the event. Instead of a typical series of presentations similar to a conference session, most of the workshop was dedicated to interactive discussions. To set those discussions up, a series of eight brief talks (limited to 5 minutes each) illustrating how the integration of several geophysical methods influenced the resultant geological models opened the workshop. The case studies focused on integrated imaging in various geological settings for a wide range of problems, such as improving the salt model via integration of seismic with gravity and magnetics, determining maturity of unconventional plays, or delineating mineral deposits with joint analysis of multiple geophysical datasets. Several talks were devoted to new advances in methodologies, such as joint inversions, Kirchhoff migrations of Time-domain Electromagnetic (TEM) data, and machine learning algorithms that can be used for integrated analysis.
Dr. Ed K Biegert
Consultant
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This page is a summary of: Integrated imaging: A powerful but undervalued tool, The Leading Edge, September 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
DOI: 10.1190/tle38090720.1.
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