Interpretational Processing Of Vertical Seismic Profiles (Vsp)

In most presented cases, the development of VSP processing has followed the scenario of surface seismic processing, namely that one finished section was the result given to the interpreter. The interpreter of the surface seismic data only occasionally had the desire or felt the need to re-examine the individual results from the various processing steps that the input data had gone through. In surface seismic processing today where so much averaging is taking place through stacking, signal enhancement and through horizontal correlation methods, interpreters are becoming very involved in the processing that has been done to the data and, consequently, are demanding to see the effect that various processes have on their data through intermediate data displays. In the interpretation of VSP datasets where the limited quantity data contains much information about the subsurface on or about the borehole, it has become imperative to design data presentation systems that allows one to fully examine the effect of the processing stages on the VSP data.