Visualization, Interpretation and Cognitive Cybernetics*

Seismic interpreters face an enormous challenge to ensure that the ever increasing amounts of data does result in improved exploration success and better recovery. Seismic data contains vast amounts of information and interpreters need to analyse a number of attributes of the data simultaneously to understand the behaviour of geological systems (Henderson, et al., 2008). A high level of cognition is required to collate the different types of information into a single, comprehensive interpretation in which heterogeneous information is progressively transformed into coherent models.