The binary consistency checking scheme and its applications to seismic horizon detection

Adaptation of seismic skeletonization for other geoscience applications

“…A search for cycle connections is performed by scanning overlapping three‐column ensembles (Fig. 1), similar to the binary consistency‐checking scheme in (Cheng & Lu 1989; Lu & Cheng 1990). For each cycle on the central column in the ensemble, cycle connections are made between either two or three contiguous cycles.…”

“…Automated methods are routinely used by geoscientists to map subsurface features for an understanding of the underlying tectonic mechanisms and for identifying possible exploration targets. A particular automatic method that has been extensively developed in reflection seismology for mapping horizons (or reflection discontinuities or events) is termed skeletonization (Huang et al 1987; Cheng & Lu 1989; Le & Nyland 1990; Lu 1982; Lu & Cheng 1990; Li et al 1997; Vasudevan & Cook 1998). Seismic skeletonization has its basis in syntactic pattern recognition methods, which in turn exploit the similarities and dissimilarities among events in terms of pattern primitives.…”

“…Seismic skeletonization has its basis in syntactic pattern recognition methods, which in turn exploit the similarities and dissimilarities among events in terms of pattern primitives. The original methods of skeletonization (Huang et al 1987; Cheng & Lu 1989; Le & Nyland 1990; Lu 1982; Lu & Cheng 1990) yield so‐called ‘seismic skeletons’ (i.e. discontinuities or edges); until recently, however, little was done to exploit the attributes of skeletons and/or their expression in terms of the pattern primitives.…”