Insight Earth® 1.6
Insight Earth is TerraSpark’s benchmark 3D seismic interpretation platform, originally developed within our industry-funded Geoscience Interpretation Visualization Consortium (GIVC). Insight Earth was released to market in 2008, and since that time has provided customers with dramatic improvements in interpretation speed and accuracy.
Our customers are using Insight Earth today to:
- Identify the most productive regions of their shale resource plays
- Discover hidden plays in current production areas by removing the overprinted current structure from the entire volume, to extend productivity beyond conventional limitations
- Quickly define the boundaries of salt bodies with precision only possible with our unique interpretation technologies
- Interpret faults in highly complex plays with unparalleled clarity - removing noise and footprints in the seismic data
Insight Earth lowers the bar of the impossible, leveraging its patented technologies –Domain Transformation™, Surface Wrapping™ and Automated Fault Extraction™ - to radically improve your seismic interpretation results. You get True Volume interpretation of both structure and stratigraphy, not just a “one slice” view.
With Insight Earth, interpretation workflows are greatly accelerated, while improving quality and accuracy. All within a fully 3D seismic interpretation platform.
Insight Earth's Automated Fault Extraction (below) significantly upgrades fault image quality and clarity through the use of higher resolution algorithms, and improves the S/N ratio of fault features, including lower angle faults.
Surface Wrapping (below) is a rapid, multi-z interpretation technique that utilizes a 3D mesh to define the bounding surface of a geobody. It is widely recognized for its ability to greatly accelerate workflows while preserving the highest level of accuracy.
Domain Transformation (below) is a particularly valuable tool for identifying hidden plays or targets because it removes all structural elements from the entire 3D volume. The result is a cube of data where every slice represents a stratal slice, or de facto paleodepositional surface.
Insight Earth 1.6 – New Features
Data Import, Export and Management
Insight Earth 1.6 delivers an integrated, interactive user interface redesigned for greater ease of use and stability for both data import and export. Import features are now even more compatible with multiple platforms (both files and formats), including Landmark, Paradigm, Petrel and SMT:
- File formats are automatically read, processed and loaded with minimal user input
- Landmark formats are included for horizons, faults and polylines
- Culture is included in shape file format
- LAS files including LAS 3.0 load faster and with seamless integration
SEGY Import – Insight Earth 1.6 provides a new, user-friendly interactive GUI with the following features:
- View parameterization results before data loading for quality control and accuracy
- Histograms for data interrogation and parameterization
- 32-bit SEG-Y import/voxel offset/scale changes
- Header read into memory for reprocessing
- New gridding scheme and reference point calculation
- Petrel format presets
World Coordinate Conversion – An Industry Standard
- Configurable conversions
- Save and restore conversion data to disk
- Saving conversion information to projects
- Updated global coordinate conversion routines
- State plan conversion functionality
- NAD27 to NAD83 conversion
- Alaska zone 1
- Michigan NAD 27
- Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa
- ASCII Export coordinate conversion
Infrastructure
Insight Earth 1.6 includes new capabilities that allow greater user control, data visualization and flexibility.
Microseismic Data
- Microseismic data can now be loaded, viewed and configured in new ways.
- Multidimensional glyphs – geometric shapes can now represent multiple attributes including time, orientation (in X, Y, Z), color and compass direction.
- Property calculator – volume attributes can be calculated or extracted from other attributes using this application.
Visualization
- Co-rendering of various attribute volumes, each with separate color assignment, can overlay up to 4 volumes at once.
Autotracking and Snapping Functionality
- Snapping is now accurate with “unclipped data” (very low apparent frequency), and on many-sampled features.
- Snapping on “flat spots” data (aggressively clipped/very low apparent frequency).
- Quadratic snapping mode has been modified to accommodate negative peaks/polarity.
Pointset Functionality
- Improved areal delete (polygon) and infill.
Histograms
- 32-bit functionality across all applications.
- Performance optimized.
- Opacity Curve editing and shader implemented for 32-bit data.
- Histograms now can be stored in tvol format.
User Interface redesigned for intuitive use and functionality.
Velocity Modeling
3D paint functionality has been implemented to increase precision, and salt body stopping surfaces now accurately control autoflood for multi-z complexities. Salt body flooding can now be completed without gaps.
Automated Fault Extraction: Modifications
Fault enhance has been reconfigured to improve implementation and optimization workflow functions, resulting in much cleaner fault extractions. The active zone search function increases the opportunity for resultant fault linearity using dip and azimuth information from areas of higher fault probability.
- Active zone searching for dip enhance, azimuth enhance and plane enhance
- Horizon-oriented edge stack now utilizes dip and azimuth information from fault-enhanced volumes
