Pseudo-outcrop visualization of borehole images and core scans
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Publication:1719829
DOI10.1007/S11004-017-9701-2zbMATH Open1406.86045arXiv1702.02633OpenAlexW2659788893WikidataQ57384827 ScholiaQ57384827MaRDI QIDQ1719829FDOQ1719829
Jeremy Levesley, James A. Whetton, Alexander N. Gorban, Peter A. S. Elkington, Evgeny M. Mirkes
Publication date: 12 February 2019
Published in: Mathematical Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: A pseudo-outcrop visualization is demonstrated for borehole and full-diameter rock core images to augment the ubiquitous unwrapped cylinder view and thereby to assist non-specialist interpreters. The pseudo-outcrop visualization is equivalent to a nonlinear projection of the image from borehole to earth frame of reference that creates a solid volume sliced longitudinally to reveal two or more faces in which the orientations of geological features indicate what is observed in the subsurface. A proxy for grain size is used to modulate the external dimensions of the plot to mimic profiles seen in real outcrops. The volume is created from a mixture of geological boundary elements and texture, the latter being the residue after the sum of boundary elements is subtracted from the original data. In the case of measurements from wireline microresistivity tools, whose circumferential coverage is substantially less than 100%, the missing circumferential data is first inpainted using multiscale directional transforms, which decompose the image into its elemental building structures, before reconstructing the full image. The pseudo-outcrop view enables direct observation of the angular relationships between features and aids visual comparison between borehole and core images, especially for the interested non-specialist.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02633
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