Machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection data

A carbonate build-up or reef is a thick carbonate deposit consisting of mainly skeletal remains of organisms that can be large enough to develop a favourable topography. Delineation of such geologic features provides important input in understanding the basin's evolution and petroleum prospects...

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Main Authors: Priyadarshi Chinmoy Kumar, Kalachand Sain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2023-12-01
Series:Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666544123000205
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description A carbonate build-up or reef is a thick carbonate deposit consisting of mainly skeletal remains of organisms that can be large enough to develop a favourable topography. Delineation of such geologic features provides important input in understanding the basin's evolution and petroleum prospects. Here, we introduce a new attribute called the Reef Cube (RC) meta-attribute that has been computed by fusing several other seismic attributes that are characteristics of the reef through a supervised machine-learning algorithm. The neural learning resulted in a minimum nRMS error of 0.28 and 0.30 and a misclassification percentage of 1.13% and 1.06% for the train and test data sets. The Reef Cube meta-attribute has efficiently captured the anatomy of carbonate reef buried at ∼450 m below the seafloor from high-resolution 3D seismic data in the NW shelf of Australia. The novel approach not only picks up the subsurface architecture of the carbonate reef accurately but also accelerates the process of interpretation with a much-reduced intervention of human analysts. This can be efficiently suited for delimiting any subsurface geologic feature from a large volume of surface seismic data.
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spelling doaj.art-0286b5631e2047e6abe0ad39f9f9be392024-01-24T05:21:58ZengKeAi Communications Co. Ltd.Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences2666-54412023-12-0145967Machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection dataPriyadarshi Chinmoy Kumar0Kalachand Sain1Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33 GMS Road, Uttarakhand, India; Seismic Interpretation Laboratory-WIHG, IndiaWadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33 GMS Road, Uttarakhand, India; Seismic Interpretation Laboratory-WIHG, India; Corresponding author. Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33 GMS Road, Uttarakhand, India.A carbonate build-up or reef is a thick carbonate deposit consisting of mainly skeletal remains of organisms that can be large enough to develop a favourable topography. Delineation of such geologic features provides important input in understanding the basin's evolution and petroleum prospects. Here, we introduce a new attribute called the Reef Cube (RC) meta-attribute that has been computed by fusing several other seismic attributes that are characteristics of the reef through a supervised machine-learning algorithm. The neural learning resulted in a minimum nRMS error of 0.28 and 0.30 and a misclassification percentage of 1.13% and 1.06% for the train and test data sets. The Reef Cube meta-attribute has efficiently captured the anatomy of carbonate reef buried at ∼450 m below the seafloor from high-resolution 3D seismic data in the NW shelf of Australia. The novel approach not only picks up the subsurface architecture of the carbonate reef accurately but also accelerates the process of interpretation with a much-reduced intervention of human analysts. This can be efficiently suited for delimiting any subsurface geologic feature from a large volume of surface seismic data.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666544123000205Carbonate reefMarine seismicSeismic attributesStructureMachine learningOffshore
spellingShingle Priyadarshi Chinmoy Kumar
Kalachand Sain
Machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection data
Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences
Carbonate reef
Marine seismic
Seismic attributes
Structure
Machine learning
Offshore
title Machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection data
title_full Machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection data
title_fullStr Machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection data
title_full_unstemmed Machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection data
title_short Machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection data
title_sort machine learning elucidates the anatomy of buried carbonate reef from seismic reflection data
topic Carbonate reef
Marine seismic
Seismic attributes
Structure
Machine learning
Offshore
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666544123000205
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