Surface Modelling from Scattered Geological Data

Adaptive detection and approximation of unknown surface discontinuities from scattered data

“…In geology a surface discontinuity is often named with the word "fault", which means discontinuity in a layer caused by severe movements of the earth's crust. In geological applications, such as oil finding, fault localization is particularly important, because it provides useful information on the occurrence of oil reservoirs [10]. It is well known that the interpretation of faults in seismic data is today a time-consuming manual task, and reducing time from exploration to production of an oil field has great economical benefits [11].…”