Digitally enhanced GLORIA images for petroleum exploration
- EarthQuest, Piedmont, CA (USA)
- Stanford Univ., CA (USA)
This poster presentation graphically depicts the geological and structural information that can be derived from digitally enhanced Geological Long Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) sonar images. This presentation illustrates the advantages of scale enlargement as an interpreter's tool in an offshore area within the Eel River Basin, Northern California. Sonographs were produced from digital tapes originally collected for the exclusive economic zone (EEZ)-SCAN 1984 survey, which was published in the Atlas of the Western Conterminous US at a scale of 1:500,000. This scale is suitable for displaying regional offshore tectonic features but does not have the resolution required for detailed geological mapping necessary for petroleum exploration. Applications of digital enhancing techniques which utilize contrast stretching and assign false colors to wide-swath sonar imagery (approximately 40 km) with 50-m resolution enables the acquisition and interpretation of significantly more geological and structural data. This, combined with a scale enlargement to 1:100,000 and high contrast contact prints vs. the offset prints of the atlas, increases the resolution and sharpness of bathymetric features so that many more subtle features may be mapped in detail. A tectonic interpretation of these digitally enhanced GLORIA sonographs from the Eel River basin is presented, displaying anticlines, lineaments, ridge axis, pathways of sediment flow, and subtle doming. Many of these features are not present on published bathymetric maps and have not been derived from seismic data because the plan view spatial resolution is much less than that available from the GLORIA imagery.
- OSTI ID:
- 6916855
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-900605-; CODEN: AABUD
- Journal Information:
- AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA), Vol. 74:5; Conference: Annual convention and exposition of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, San Francisco, CA (USA), 3-6 Jun 1990; ISSN 0149-1423
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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