Seismic Deveopment 1956-2008
Timeline data courtesy of professor Christopher Liner. The data is available as a downloadable PDF file, or click the image below for a high-resolution JPG.
Categories: A=Acquisition, P=Processing, I=Interpretation
1956 |
Common midpoint shooting (A)
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Synthetic seismogram (I) |
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1960 |
Vibroseis (A) |
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Marine airgun (A) |
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1964 |
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Digital seismic processing (P) |
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1968 |
Digital Migration (P) |
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Seismic Stratigraphy (I) |
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1972 |
3-D shooting (A) |
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1976 |
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Dip moveout (P), 2-D poststack depth migration (P) |
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Residual statics (P), Complex trace attributes (I), Impedance inversion (I) |
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2-D Prestack depth migration (P), Bright spot analysis (I), Workstations (I) |
1980 |
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3-D migration velocity analysis, Slant stack (P) |
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3-D event autotracking (I) |
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Reverse time migration (P) |
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2-D reflection tomography (P), Optimization (P) |
1984 |
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3-D poststack depth migration (P), AVO analysis (I) |
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3-D reflection tomography (P), FX deconvolution (P), Prestack RTM (P) |
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Ocean bottom cable (A), Crosswell (A) |
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1988 |
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3-D PreSDM (P), Neural networks (P), Horizon dip/azimuth attributes (I) |
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Subsalt imaging (I) |
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Vertical cable (A), Turning wave migration (P), wavelet transforms (P) |
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1992 |
Seismic sequence stratigraphy (I) |
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Routine anisotropic processing (P) |
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4-D seismic (A), Coherence (I), Fluid substitution (I), Wavelet transforms (I) |
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Impedance optimization (I), Attribute classification (I) |
1996 |
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Spectral decomposition (I), Neural networks (I) |
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Seismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing (A) |
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Least squares migration (P), Rayleigh wave inversion (P), Elastic inversion (I) |
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Overpressure from attributes (I) |
2000 |
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Multi-attribute transforms (I), MEMS accelerometer (A) |
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Structure-oriented filtering (I), Geomechanics from seismic data (I) |
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Horizontal crosswell tomography (A), Interferometry (P) |
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Volumetric attributes (I), Spice attribute (I), Relative geologic time volume (I) |
2004 |
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Virtual source method (P) |
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Wide-azimuth towed marine data (A), Commercial 3-D reverse time migration (P) |
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Wireless land seismic (A), Vector acoustic measurements (A) |
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Spectral inversion (I), Biot slow S-wave revived (I) |
2008 |