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Geophysical survey contracting industry:
about $10 billion/year world wide
about 10,000 attend annual meeting.
Purchasers = Oil companies
Suppliers = “contractors”
Contractors= (Haliburton, Schlumberger, and dozens of
smaller ones)
competitive! (meticulous talks!)
A hundred miscellaneous ideas from my career
1967-2008
Jon Claerbout
Claerbout in 4 parts
Correlation of waves -- amazing discovery in 1968, ignored for 30 years.
Earth seismic reflections: Amazing!
1st class -- 2-D reflection seismology
2nd class -- image estimation -- inverse problems of high dimensionality
One slide summarizes Chapter 8 here.
I’ll pull up this book and we’ll skim Chapter 8.
I hope I can bring up the graphics software that will take us through a “typical” reflection data cube(x,y,z).
You’ll be amazed!
Two million years, aboutin steps of 8000 years(a room full of Mississippi mud = 8000 years)A million years is a kilometer of mud, now stone.8000 years = 6ms two/way travel time.A land area of 5 miles x 5 miles.
We’ll skim thru this book (taught fall quarter).
This book I am working on now, teaching in fall quarter.
It has been a pleasure meeting you and your community.
Welcome to my course, if you are here at Stanford.