The Virtual Seismic Atlas Project

虚拟地震地图集（VSA）项目将生成一个独立的、免费使用的、基于社区的互联网资源，该资源将以图片和工作簿的形式捕获和共享地震反射数据的地质解释。地震数据的获取和处理费用昂贵，但却能提供对地质结构和过程的关键见解。它们彻底改变了人们对地表过程、构造地质学、海底灾害和浅层地壳过程（如盆地流体迁移）的理解。它们可用于跟踪生产过程中的碳氢化合物和地下封存过程中的二氧化碳。地震资料是地球科学的核心资源。然而，他们的解释需要丰富的经验。在地震数据解释中获得的技能和知识以及允许现代研究的数据处理的进步分散在工业，大学和政府组织中（例如英国地质调查局）。该项目的目的是将这些社区聚集在一起，收集地震数据的地质应用实例，并创建一个全面的共同遗产，以启动未来的研究和培训发展。VSA数据，包括地震数据及其衍生数据，将可以搜索和下载。用户将能够使用各种地质、地球物理、地理和技术标准搜索地震图像、解释、数据样本和相关文件。因此，VSA将为社区提供一个平台，以查找地震实例和类比，并比较解释策略和经验。它将产生新的研究机会，并将为公众了解科学活动提供一个图片库。VSA将建立在业界领先的getknowledge数据管理/知识转移软件上，该软件由必和必拓和Blue Fish Development开发。容量将超过1000万个文档，并允许500个同步用户。VSA的初步内容正在与Veritas DGC和BGS合作开发，他们将提供来自不同设置（包括UKCS）的样本3D和2D数据。此外，该项目将纳入来自伦敦地质学会的相关版权材料。这些最初的收集旨在促进其他数据/解释所有者随着网站的发展将他们的资料添加到网站中。我们的赞助人，资深石油地质学家大卫·g·罗伯茨和理查德·哈德曼以及英国石油勘探协会的指导参与进一步表明了社区的支持。我们的项目合作伙伴（Veritas DGC和必和必拓与Blue Fish）正在提供价值数百万英镑的实物资源。我们要求NERC支持VSA的额外开发成本，即：1)PDRA参与地震数据的地质/解释，构建内容并领导地震解释中地质不确定性的新研究；2)访问数据提供商（Veritas、BGS）的旅行/生活费用；3)在利兹的计算机硬件和VSA web服务器安装及支持费用。在VSA网站之外，知识转移目标将通过以下几种方式实现：PDRA将充当KT促进者；人员将进行短期交流（必和必拓的员工将来到利兹从事网页设计工作，利兹的员工将与行业地球物理学家一起在地震数据库中工作）；学术、公共部门和工业地球科学家的不同团体的代表将通过项目管理结构会面。该遗产将成为一个自我维护的数字资源，为石油行业、相关科学基地等广泛的用户社区提供服务。

The Virtual Seismic Atlas (VSA) Project will generate an independent, free-to-use, community-based internet resource, which will capture and share the geological interpretation of seismic reflection data in picture and workbook format. Seismic data are expensive to acquire and process, yet give key insights into geological structure and processes. They have revolutionized understanding of Earth surface processes, structural geology, submarine hazards, and shallow crustal processes such as basin fluid migration. They can be used to track hydrocarbons during production and CO2 during subsurface sequestration. Seismic data are a core geoscience resource. Their interpretation, however, needs substantial experience. The skills and knowledge gained in the interpretation of seismic data and the advances in data processing that permit modern studies are dispersed through industry, universities, and government organisations (e.g. British Geological Survey). The aim of this project is to draw these communities together, capturing examples of the geological use of seismic data, and creating a comprehensive common heritage from which to launch future developments in research and training. VSA data, including seismic data and their derivatives, will be searchable and downloadable. Users will be able to search for seismic images, interpretations, data samples and related documents using various geological, geophysical, geographical and technical criteria. The VSA will therefore provide a platform for the community to find seismic examples and analogues, and to compare interpretation strategies and experience. It will generate new research opportunities and will provide an image library for public understanding of science activities. The VSA will be built on the industry-leading getknowledge data management/ knowledge transfer software, developed by BHP-Billiton and Blue Fish Development. Capacity will exceed 10 million documents and will allow 500 synchronous users. The preliminary content of the VSA is being developed with Veritas DGC and BGS who will provide sample 3D and 2D data from diverse settings (including UKCS). In addition, the project will incorporate relevant copyright material from the Geological Society of London. These initial collections are designed to promote other data/interpretation owners to add their material to the site as it grows. Community support is further indicated by the guiding involvement of our patrons, the senior petroleum geologists David G. Roberts and Richard Hardman, and of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain. Our project partners (Veritas DGC and BHP-Billiton with Blue Fish) are providing in-kind resources worth several million pounds. We request that NERC support the additional development costs of the VSA, namely: 1) a PDRA to engage in geological/interpretation of seismic data, building content and leading new research into geological uncertainty in seismic interpretation, and; 2) travel/subsistence costs for visits to data providers (Veritas, BGS) and 3) computer hardware plus VSA web server installation and support in Leeds. Beyond the VSA website, Knowledge Transfer objectives will be met in several ways: the PDRA will act as act as KT facilitator; personnel will be exchanged for short periods (BHP-B staff will come to Leeds to work on web design and Leeds staff will work with industry geophysicists in seismic data libraries); representatives of the different communities of academic, public sector and industry geoscientists will meet through the project management structure. The legacy will be a self-maintaining digital resource to serve a broad range of user communities in the oil industry, the associated science base and beyond.