3D Physical Modelling

3 ' 3+<6 &$/ 02'(// 1* G. BLACQUIÈRE and A.W.F. VOLKER $EVWUDFW 1 Despite the rapid increase in affordable computational power numerical modelling must still acknowledge the superiority of physical modelling in the case of full-size 3-D seismic data sets. In this paper we address our physical modelling facility in Delft and the improvements we realised in the last several years. The various aspects in physical modelling are: the building of a realistic scale model the definition of an acquisition geometry the generation of a source signal and the data acquisition. Each of these aspects requires its own specialised skills