Technical Program Sessions

With more than 1,600 abstracts received for review, the 2017 Technical Program included 1,160 presentations in 158 diverse sessions, including nine Special Sessions and one Special Global Session. It was the largest SEG Technical Program to date.

Click any sessions below to review the abstracts accepted for that session, or download the full schedule in PDF format.

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Abbreviation	Topic
ACQ	Acquisition and Survey Design
ANI	Anisotropy
AVOSI	AVO and Seismic Inversion
BG	Borehole Geophysics
DIM	Diffraction Imaging and Modeling
EM	EM Exploration
FWI	Full Waveform Inversion
GM	Gravity and Magnetics
INT	Interpretation
MG	Mining and Geothermal
MS	Multicomponent Seismic
NS	Near Surface
PS	Passive Seismic
RC	Reservoir Characterization
RP	Rock Physics
SGS	Special Global Session
SM	Seismic Modeling
SPIR	Seismic Processing: Interpolation and Regularization
SPMI	Seismic Processing: Migration
SPMUL	Seismic Processing: Multiples
SPNA	Seismic Processing: Noise Attenuation
SS	Special Session
ST	Seismic Theory
SVE	Seismic Velocity Estimation
TL	Time Lapse
UAS	Unmanned Vehicles Air, Land, Sea
VSP	Vertical Seismic Profile

Oral Sessions

Room	Monday, 25 Sep 1:50-5:10 PM	Tuesday, 26 Sep 8:30-11:50 AM	Tuesday, 26 Sep 1:50-5:10 PM	Wednesday, 27 Sep 8:30-11:50 AM	Wednesday, 27 Sep 1:50-5:10 PM	Thursday, 28 Sep 8:30-11:50 AM
330A	RC 1 Carbonates	RC 3 Inversion Techniques	RC 5 Unconventional Plays	RC 7 Fracture Characterization	RC 8 Integrated Analysis and Interpretation	RC 9 Unconventionals, Volcanics, and Fractures
340A	INT 1 Interpretation Workflows and Techniques	INT 2 Event-picking and Chronostratigraphy	INT 3 Stratigraphic and Facies Interpretation	INT 4 Thin Beds and Reservoirs	INT 6 Attributes	INT 8 Spectral Decomposition
350D	RC 2 Seismic Attribute Analysis and Calibration Methods	RC 4 Improved Seismic Resolution	RC 6 Inversion Case Studies	INT 5 Fault and Salt	INT 7 Machine Learning and Pattern Analysis	INT 9 Case Studies 2
360A	SPNA 1 Broadband Deghosting	SPNA 2 Deblending and Noise Attenuation	SPIR 1 Reconstruction and Interpolation	SPNA 3 Noise Suppression and Signal processing	SPIR 2 Regularization, Spectrum, and Algorithms	SPNA 4 Land Noise and Signal Processing
360D	ANI 1 Polar Anisotropy	ANI 2 New Methods in Anisotropy	ANI 3 Azimuthal Anisotropy	ANI 4 Studying Polar, Orthorhombic and Tilted Orthorhombic Media	ST 1 Sources and Attenuation	ST 2 Migration, Datuming, and Inversion
360C	SS 1 Near-surface Geophysical Methods for Archaeologic Research	GM 1 Inversion in Potential Fields	GM 2 Application of G&M Techniques	GM 3 Instruments, Processing and Interpretation	MG 1 Case Histories and Methods	SS 9 Engineering Geophysics
370A	SS 2 S-wave Reflection Seismology with P Sources	MS 1 Processing Advances	MS 2 Applications	SPMUL 1 Toolbox Improvements and Practice	SPMUL 2 Interbeds: Developments and Case Studies	RP 6 Data Integration
370D	AVOSI 1 New Methods	AVOSI 2 Frequency Analysis	AVOSI 3 Case Studies	AVOSI 4 Probabilistic Methods	AVOSI 5 Methods and Applications 1	AVOSI 6 Methods and Applications 2
370C	SS 3 Development and Application of Surface-wave Methods	SS 6 Geoscientists without Borders	SS 8 Hydrogeophysics	NS 1 Looking Shallow to See Deep	NS 2 Applied Near-surface Seismology: Refractions, reflections, and Surface Waves	NS 3 Statics, Tomography, and Inversion
351D	RP 1 Wavefields and Dispersion	RP 2 Seismic-scale Applications	RP 3 Experiments and Models for Shale	RP 4 Rock Physics Modeling Approaches	RP 5 S-waves, Carbonates, Fractures, and Oil Sands	RP 7 Transport Properties, Fractures, and Microstructures
351F	SS 4 Recent Advances and the Road Ahead	SGS 1 US/Canada	TL 1 Acquisition and Processing	UAS 1 Unmanned Geophysical Systems	TL 2 Analysis	TL 3 Land, UR, CO2, Gravity, EM
361A	SPMI 1 Elastic Least Squares Imaging	SPMI 2 Acoustic Least Squares Imaging 1	SPMI 3 Acoustic RTM	SPMI 4 Elastic RTM and Imaging Case Studies	SPMI 5 Acoustic Least Squares Imaging 2	SPMI 7 Imaging Examples and Imaging Conditions
361F	FWI 1 Methodology 1	FWI 2 Methodology 2	FWI 3 Case Studies	FWI 4 Anisotropy, Attenuation and Time Lapse	FWI 5 Reflection Waveform Inversion	FWI 6 Salt Model Building
371A	SVE 1 Theory	VSP 1 Acquisition and Analysis	VSP 2 Processing and Imaging	SVE 3 Tomography and Uncertainty	SPMI 6 Q RTM and Novel methods	FWI 7 Elastic Inversion
371F	ACQ 1 Land Seismic Acquisition	ACQ 2 Compressive Sensing and Simultaneous Shooting: Marine Acquisition	ACQ 3 Marine Seismic Sources-new Aspects	ACQ 4 Compressive Sensing and Simultaneous Shooting: Land/OBC	ACQ 5 Marine Seismic Acquisition	ACQ 6 Seismic Survey Design-case Studies
381A	SS 5 Emerging Professionals, Emerging Technologies	SVE 2 Case Histories	SM 1 Modeling Methods 2	DIM 1 Diffraction Imaging and Modeling 1	SM 2 Theory	SM 3 Applied Modeling Studies 2
362A	EM 1 Downhole and Crosswell Techniques	EM 2 Physics, Processing and Modeling	EM 3 Imaging and Inversion	EM 4 Case Studies and Applications	BG 2 Emerging Application in Borehole Logging	BG 3 Deep Sensing Borehole Acoustics
362D	PS 1 Microseismic Acquisition	SS 7 Injection Induced Seismicity	PS 2 Event Location 2	BG 1 Borehole Acoustic Logging	PS 3 Microseismic Case Studies	PS 4 Imaging and Inversion

E-Presentations Sessions

Monday, 25 Sep 1:50-4:20 PM	Tuesday, 26 Sep 9:20-11:50 AM	Tuesday, 26 Sep 1:50-4:20 PM	Wednesday, 27 Sep 9:20-11:50 AM	Wednesday, 27 Sep 1:50-4:20 PM
INT E-P1 Attribute Applications	INT E-P2 Depositional Elements and Geobodies	INT E-P3 Methods and Algorithms	TL E-P1 Technology and Methods	DIM E-P1 Diffraction Imaging and Modeling 2
SPMUL E-P1 Methods in Development and Practice	SPIR E-P1 Reconstruction, Managing Aliasing, and Algorithms	SPNA E-P1 Deblending, Passive and Microseismic	ANI E-P1 Modeling and Inversion with Seismic Anisotropy	EM E-P1 Modeling, Inversion and Applications
AVOSI E-P1 Spectral Approaches and High Resolution Techniques	FWI E-P1 Methodology 3	FWI E-P2 Methodology 4	SPMI E-P1 Adaptive or Robust Imaging	SVE E-P1 Case Histories and Algorithms
SM E-P1 Modeling Methods 1	SM E-P2 Applied Modeling Studies 1	RP E-P1 Pore Space, Frequencies, and Minerals	RC E-P1 Reservoir Detail and Modeling	RP E-P2 Digital Rock Physics Advances

Poster Sessions

Monday, 25 Sep 1:50-4:20 PM	Tuesday, 26 Sep 9:20-11:50 AM	Tuesday, 26 Sep 1:50-4:20 PM	Wednesday, 27 Sep 9:20-11:50 AM	Wednesday, 27 Sep 1:50-4:20 PM
ACQ P1 Land and Marine Acquisition Case Studies	AVOSI P1 Case Studies and Inversion Methods	AVOSI P2 Methods	AVOSI P3 AVO and Inversion Techniques	EM P1 Processing and Inversion
GM P1 Practical Examples in G&M Interpretation	PS P1 Event Location 1	PS P2 Interferometry and Ambient Imaging	SM P1 Modeling Methods 3	PS P3 Subsurface Characterization
RP P1 Carbonate and Digital Textures	RP P2 Rock Property Assessments	SVE P1 Earth Model Building Strategies and Inputs	INT P2 Interpretation Methods	INT P3 Case Studies 1
ST P1 Heterogeneity, Compression, and Marchenko Applications	INT P1 Fault and Salt	SPNA P1 Noise Attenuation and Signal Processing Applications	MS P1 Imaging Multicomponent Seismic Data	SPNA P2 Noise Attenuation Theory and Algorithms
SPMI P1 RTM Methods and Examples	NS P1 Characterization	SPMI P2 Other Imaging Methods	FWI P1 Methodology 5	FWI P2 Methodology 6
RC P1 Seismic Attributes and Spectral Decomposition	RC P2 Fracture Characterization and Unconventional Reservoirs	RC P3 Carbonates and Gas Hydrates	RC P4 Resolution and Attenuation/Dispersion 1	RC P5 Resolution and Attenuation/Dispersion 2