H-κ stacking is a routinemethod for determining crustal thickness (H) and Vp/Vs (κ) using P-to-S (Ps) receiver functions. In this paper we show that S-to-P (Sp) receiver functions may also be used to determine crustal parameters. Sp provides independent information, complementary to Ps. We develop a method called H-V (crustal thickness-velocity) stacking where Ps and Sp receiver functions are s...

Relating sedimentary records to seismic data is a major challenge. By shifting focus to a scale-invariant sharpness characterization for the reflectors, we develop an attribute that can capture and categorize the main reflector features, without being sensitive to amplitudes. Sharpness is defined by a scale exponent, which expresses singularity order and determines the reflection signature/wave...

Manual stratigraphic interpretation of modern 3-D seismic images is a tedious and timeconsuming process. We present a method based on nonstationary predictive signal/noise separation for automatically recognizing the occurence of an arbitrary, predefined pattern, or facies template, in seismic images. Similarity of local data windows to the facies template is measured by an attribute which has ...

A probabilistic method was developed for ranking Canadian hydropower dams according to their seismic vulnerability. The method is based on the probabilistic seismic hazard at the dam location, the seismic fragility of the dam, and the construction date of the dam. The seismic hazard is represented by the peak ground acceleration of seismic motions at the dam location for a specified probability...

Seismic data recovery from data with missing traces on otherwise regular acquisition grids forms a crucial step in the seismic processing flow. For instance, unsuccessful recovery leads to imaging artifacts and to erroneous predictions for the multiples, adversely affecting the performance of multiple elimination. A non-parametric transform-based recovery method is presented that exploits the c...

In the oilfield development stage, more recoverable reserves can be found by using the more sophisticated seismic methods with stimulation. Threecomponent seismic exploration technology comes into being, and it is becoming a major oil exploration seismic technology currently. As the sensitive element of seismic geophone, the performance of the harmonic oscillator is vitally important to the ent...