Headwave Inc. Donates Software

Headwave Inc. has donated to the department their Prestack AVO software. This software will aid students to meet the challanges of seismic data interpretation and oil and gas exploration/production careers. Headwave's software solution, gives easy access to potentially enormous multi-terabyte prestack datasets from single PCs.
Overview
Routine 3D visualization of prestack data can reduce turn-around time at all stages of a project’s lifecycle, from real-time visualization and analysis of shot gathers during acquisition, to true 3D QC of gathers during data processing (no more sparse sampling of gathers in 2D viewers!) -- to new insights into the quality of poststack datasets and horizons for interpreters and drilling decision makers.
Viewing Prestack Gathers
Prestack for Interpreters allows users to view any type of gather, (shot, receiver, cmp, etc.) as either a 3D volume in its own domain space, or, in the case of midpoint gathers, linked intuitively to either a corresponding poststack inline or crossline.
Data Management
Data management of terabytes of prestack data is a non-trivial part of data processing and exploration & production. To counter the challenges of frequent, cumbersome transfers of huge datasets Headwave has introduced a unique compressed, multi-dimensional, multi-resolution dataformat. By compressing the original datasets in multiple dimensions, it is possible to reduce the size of the file(s) to a level where logistics is no longer a bottleneck to the use of prestack data.

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