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Add more support for seismic data and make the SEGY and P190 readers more flexib

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Original Title was: Add more support for seismic data and make the SEGY and P190 readers more flexible




I think that there is a lot more which can be done with FME in this space. There are a lot of users in the Oil and Gas community who use FME. Support for seismic data formats in FME is pretty limited at present. As a user I would love to be able to quickly create workflows to pull out the Navigation from my SEGY and stick it into a GIS. I love the CAT reader and think that this is something which could be integrated into reading the EBCDIC header. The SEGY reader should also support reading 3D Seismic.

I hate to bust the bubble. But how can interpreted SEGY data be converted by FME into ArcGIS usage. I think its just not possible. But that is just me thinking!

@13gamat Yes I couldn't agree more. Any interpreted data, such as formation tops are likely all in a proprietary format. SEG-Y on the other had at least has the geometry/navigation stored in the trace headers. With FME it is possible to read these coordinates in. Limitations with FME pop up when faced with segy from 3D surveys. With the most recent revisions of the segy format it looks like work has been done to include space for coordinate system information which could help automate the process further.

 

Being able to partially automate the extraction the geometry of a survey could be very helpful for creating a quick reference tool to seismic coverage in an area. A reference/link directly to the segy file could be included for quick download or extraction from a database.

 

 

Some information shared by @chucklopez from this Q/A . Thanks @chucklopez!

 

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"Here is some information about SEG-Y: This is the SEG-Y rev 2 specification

http://seg.org/Portals/0/SEG/News%20and%20Resources/Technical%20Standards/seg_y_rev2_0-mar2017.pdf and the SEG-Y rev 1 specification

https://www.seg.org/Portals/0/SEG/News%20and%20Resources/Technical%20Standards/seg_y_rev1.pdf. In addition, this link is to a free SEG-Y viewer, SeiSee and related utilities http://www.dmng.ru/en/freeware.html along with the URL to the SeiSee user manual:

http://www.dmng.ru/docs/Freeware/seisee/html/SeiSeeEng.htm Here are some links to access SEG-Y data http://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Open_data#3D_marine_seismic_data and

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-326/index.htm . Lastly, this is a link to Geosoft's utility for importing SEG-Y into Oasis montaj. BTW It would be very useful if FME supported the Geosoft data formats since Geosoft is widely used in the geoscience community."

 

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