An Efficient Method for Sorting Large-Volume Seismic Data

A-19 AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR SORTING LARGE-VOLUME SEISMIC DATA Abstract 1 The channel count in our 3D seismic crews is increasing very rapidly. At Saudi Aramco the last count as of writing this paper has reached 3840 channels/VP. Many seismic processing algorithms require data to be sorted in special orders such as common mid-point and common receiver gathers. For very large [1 tera (10 12 ) bytes or larger] data sets sorting the data efficiently with limited computer resources is a non-trivial task. In this paper we introduce a new and efficient sorting method. We will refer to it as