[Paraview] SEG-Y seismic data loading

Léo Pessanha leonardopessanha74 at gmail.com
Wed May 27 16:35:33 EDT 2015


Google summer of code accepted a project that may add the seismic data
import.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2015/jiac5/5707702298738688

Let's wait!


2015-03-16 17:12 GMT-03:00 Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>:

> A quick Google search yields a few Python libraries such as
>
> http://segymat.sourceforge.net/segypy/
>
> Has anyone experimented with any of those? Once someone can figure out how
> to bring the data in, we can figure out how to visualize it.
>
> -berk
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Lester Anderson <arctica1963 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The other workaround is to have an image of the seismic line that can be
>> georeferenced for loading into Paraview. However, this requires a seismic
>> viewer capable of exporting a good quality image and not all do (SeiSee is
>> quite good). Obviously things get a little complex when having to convert
>> from time to depth, but not so if you are dealing with Z as the time
>> coordinate.
>>
>> Is there a georeference filter/tool in ParaView?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> On 6 March 2015 at 20:55, Léo Pessanha <leonardopessanha74 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Putting a SEG-Y data in a more direct way is still in the escope of one
>>> of the projects that i am working on. I did some research not a long time
>>> ago and i found that Richard Strelitz wrote a paraview plugin for reading
>>> SEG-Y data at LANL but he gave up since there was no easy way of retaining
>>> the concept of a trace that is so essential to seismic data at the time he
>>> was still trying. He said that would for some of the files he created but
>>> we lost contact.
>>>
>>> Maybe he could help, and instead of starting from zero, maybe there`s a
>>> way to continue his work and save some time.
>>>
>>> For me it would be a really really great tool to have in paraview!
>>>
>>> With the proper guidance, i would really like to help(or try to help) !
>>>
>>> 2015-03-06 11:58 GMT-03:00 David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>:
>>>
>>> +1, this would be great to have in ParaView.
>>>>
>>>> Just need someone out there to find the time and or funding to
>>>> implement it.
>>>>
>>>> It could make a nice google summer of code effort if there is a student
>>>> who is interested in the topic.
>>>> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/857
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Lester Anderson <arctica1963 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is definitely an import filter that would make ParaView more
>>>>> widely used, particularly in industry. Even doing as suggested by Leo, of
>>>>> reading the coordinates and extracting the amplitude would still be useful
>>>>> when viewing the data in 3D.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps this will be addressed in a future release, but I know this
>>>>> has been asked for some years back I believe.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5 March 2015 at 22:14, Lester Anderson <arctica1963 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Leo,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the suggestions. What software did you use to export the
>>>>>> data?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Lester
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5 March 2015 at 19:18, Léo Pessanha <leonardopessanha74 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would like to apologize, i do not know how to answer a question in
>>>>>>> the mailing list correctly, i think the way i am doing it right now is
>>>>>>> going to appear as a new question
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is no easy way of doing it, to see SEG-Y data in paraview, i
>>>>>>> used another software to export the data to ASCII txt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So i exported to a 4 collumn text file with "X" "Y" "Z" "AMPLITUDE",
>>>>>>> imported in paraview, table to structured grid points filter, and used the
>>>>>>> scalar variable amplitude to color the object
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hope it helped!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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