Syllabus:
- Elastic properties of earth materials;
- Reflection, refraction and CDP surveys;
- land and marine seismic sources,
- generation and propagation of elastic waves, velocity – depth models,
- geophones, hydrophones,
- digital recording systems,
- digital formats,
- field layouts,
- seismic noise and noise profile analysis,
- optimum geophone grouping, noise cancellation by shot and geophone arrays,
- 2D, 3D and 4D seismic data acquisition,
- processing and interpretation; CDP stacking charts, binning, filtering, static and dynamic corrections,
- Digital seismic data processing, seismic deconvolution and migration methods,
- attribute analysis, bright and dim spots,
- seismic stratigraphy,
- high resolution seismics,
- VSP,
- AVO,
- multi-component seismics and seismic interferometry.
- Reservoir geophysics- Rock Physics and Petrophysics.