Abstract: Quantitative techniques for geological mapping using geophysical data

C. F. Chung

Atlantic Geology

... of 512 x 512 (=262,144) pixels of the size of 30 m x 30 m, were selected as a test area. Among the 262, 144 pixels, two sets of training samples...

Quantification of Connectivity in Images

Yaokun Wu, Siddharth Misra

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... approximately 4000 pixels in white representing 10% volume fraction of the entire image. The Type 1 group consists of 500 different realizations...

Identification of Hydrocarbon Seeps by Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

W. S. Duncan, Ronald W. Capps

GCAGS Transactions

..., such as hyperspectral and multispectral data, are composed of pixels instead of grains of photosensitive chemicals such as photographs. A pixel, or picture...

Abstract: Application of a Novel High Resolution Object Recognition Algorithm for Petrographic Image Analysis of Reservoir Facies from the Rabbit Hills Oil Field, Montana, by M. S. Hendrix and R. Ford; #90937 (1998)

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Abstract: Application of a Novel High Resolution Object Recognition Algorithm for Petrographic Image Analysis of Reservoir Facies from the Rabbit Hills Oil Field, Montana, by M. S. Hendrix and R. Ford; #90928 (1999).

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A Simple Autocorrelation Algorithm for Determining Grain Size from Digital Images of Sediment: RESEARCH METHODS PAPERS

David M. Rubin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Vol. 74 (2004) No. 1. (January) Autocorrelation between pixels in digital images of sediment can be used to measure average grain size of sediment...

Parallel Lamination Formed by High-Density Turbidity Currents

Suzanne F. Leclair, R. William C. Arnott

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) Experiments were conducted in order to investigate processes of sediment transport and deposition from sustained turbidity currents with initial volume...

ABSTRACT: GEOLOGIC MINERALS EXTRACTION, IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING USING IMAGE SPECTRAL LIBRARY (ISL) FROM HYPERSPECTRAL DATA ITSELF

Keming Yang, Dazhi Guo

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

..., Volume 23 Beijing, China, September 15 – 22, 2006 GEOLOGIC MINERALS EXTRACTION, IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING USING IMAGE SPECTRAL LIBRARY (ISL) FROM...

ABSTRACT: COAL GRAIN CHARACTERISATION OF FLOTATION FEED

G. O’Brien, B. Jenkins, H. Beath

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

...) Abstracts of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology: 2004, Volume 21 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 27 September – 1 October...

Mineralogy and lithology of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation determined by hyperspectral core imaging

Justin E. Birdwell, Lionel C. Fonteneau, Brigette A. Martini

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... creation of continuous mineral and lithology class maps. In addition, compositing of pixel-based results to group pixels to create mineralogical...

Digital Imaging of Sediment Cores for Archives and Research: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

Peter Dartnell, James V. Gardner

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... be used for quantitative measurements as well as for archiving. The system is composed of a Macintosh computer equipped for 24-bit color, a large-volume...

Machine-learning Facilitates Prediction of Geomechanical Properties Directly From SEM Images in Unconventional Plays

Heehwan Yang, Deepak Devegowda, Mark Curtis, Chandra Rai

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... techniques. The results are URTeC 3866084 3 then used in a finite-element model to simulate response of the porous media to various stresses from...

Integration of Large-Area SEM Imaging and Automated Mineralogy-Petrography Data for Justified Decision on Nano-Scale Pore-Space Characterization Sites, as a Part of Multiscale Digital Rock Modeling Workflow

Andrey Kazak, Svyatoslav Chugunov, Victor Nachev, Mikhail Spasennykh, Anatolii Chashkov, Eugenij Pichkur, Mikhail Presniakov, Alexander Vasiliev

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... from traditional petrophysical approaches and deepening into the world of nano-scale. A promising method of retaining representatively large volume...

Petrography and Reservoir Physics I: Objective Classification of Reservoir Porosity (1)

ROBERT EHRLICH , STERLING JAMES CRABTREE , KATHLEEN O. HORKOWITZ , and JOHN P. HORKOWITZ

AAPG Bulletin

... of boundary pixels constitutes the perimeter of TOP and is directly proportional to the surface area per unit volume of TOP (Kendall and Moran, 1963...

Petrographic Image Analysis, I. Analysis of Reservoir Pore Complexes

Robert Ehrlich, Stephen K. Kennedy , Sterling J. Crabtree, Robert L. Cannon

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Separate spectra related to pore size and pore roughness are generated from each image. In addition, surface area per unit volume of pore can...

Quantification of Organic Nano-Pores Using a Helium Ion Microscope, #41673 (2015).

Tim Cavanaugh, Joel Walls, Bryan Guzman

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... (i.e., ~10 nm pore body diameter and up) can comprise up to 50 percent or more of the original volume of organic matter present. With the potential...

Assessing Textural Variation in Laminated Sands Using Digital Image Analysis of Thin Sections: RESEARCH METHODS

Elmer H. van den Berg, Victor F. Bense, Wolfgang Schlager

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... space) the histogram characteristics are determined, by defining and analyzing regions (training areas) that contain only pixels belonging to one...

An efficient, consistent, and trackable method to quantify organic matter–hosted porosity from ion-milled scanning electron microscope images of mudrock gas reservoirs

Liaosha Song, Travis Warner, and Timothy Carr

AAPG Bulletin

.... The interaction volume of BSE is much deeper than SE. A backscattered electron signal depends on the atomic number; therefore, it contains more...

Mapping and Quantifying the Clay Aggregate Microporosity in Medium- to Coarse-Grained Sandstones Using the 14C-PMMA Method

Paul Sardini, Abderrazak El Albani, Dimitri Pret, Stephane Gaboreau, Marja Siitari-Kauppi, Daniel Beaufort

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-porosity distribution of the remaining pixels in the intergranular volume was successively computed according to the dilation size. This size is equal...

Next-Generation Statistical Methods for Reservoir Modeling: Challenges and Future Potential

Jonathan Kane, Anne O'Halloran

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... models in our work, so we use each 2-D section of the full 3-D volume as training data. Figure 2: 3-D submarine channel model Nonparametric Markov...

Saturation Exponent at Various Wetting Conditions: Fractal Modeling of Thin-Sections

D. Abdassah, Y. Sumantri, P. Permadi, R. Sumantri

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on the irregularity of main grain surfaces and the volume and the distribution of clays within the pores. As pores of a porous medium can be magnified by employing...

Petrographic Analysis of Porosity and Permeability

Salman Bloch

Special Publications of SEPM

... Considerations The cornerstone for quantitative petrographic analysis was lain by Delesse, who, in 1847 "proved that the volume density of the various components...

Abstract: Application of multibeam sonar technology for benthic habitat mapping in Newfoundland and Labrador

Trevor Bell, Rodolphe Devillers, Evan Edinger

Atlantic Geology

... Edinger atlantic geology . volume 45 . 2009 83 Application of multibeam sonar technology for benthic habitat mapping in Newfoundland and Labrador...

Quantitative Mineralogical Characterization of Sandstones by Back-Scattered Electron Image Analysis

A. Dilks, S. C. Graham

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the pixels is ca. 2 µm for a 1-mm square. Since the SEM electron beam is digitally stepped from one pixel to the next, however, the spatial resolution...

Techniques for Automated Measurement of Floc Properties

Gwyn Lintern, Gilliane Sills

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Milligan, T.G., and Chant, R.J., 2005, In situ particle size distributions and volume concentrations from a LISST-100 laser particle sizer and a digital...