Development of a new seismic fracture mapping technique

Summary

The new technique for 3-D imaging remotely of fractures using P-wave data was developed to use multi-azimuthal seismic data.

Physical and numerical modelling was used to test the new method, on fractured/anisotropic media.

The method was applied successfully to two land seismic data sets containing features of geologic interest.

Keywords: 3-D seismic, fractured rock, anisotropy, fracture mapping, multi-azimuthal