Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fracture plane reconstruction in a three-dimensional set (20) of values, comprising the steps of providing a computer with the three-dimensional set, display by the computer of a succession of plane sections (10) of the three-dimensional set, selection by the user of points of the fracture plane over some of these sections during their display; and reconstruction by the computer of the fracture plane from the selected points.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fracture plane reconstruction in a three-dimensional set (20) of values, comprising the steps of providing a computer with the three-dimensional set, display by the computer of a succession of plane sections (10) of the three-dimensional set, selection by the user of points of the fracture plane over some of these sections during their display; and reconstruction by the computer of the fracture plane from the selected points.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fracture plane reconstruction in a three-dimensional set (20) of values, comprising the steps of providing a computer with the three-dimensional set, display by the computer of a succession of plane sections (10) of the three-dimensional set, selection by the user of points of the fracture plane over some of these sections during their display; and reconstruction by the computer of the fracture plane from the selected points.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for finding discontinuities in an image. This method makes it possible to detect discontinuities, i.e. faults, by being based on the heterogeneity of the distribution of the gradients of the points of the image being studied. The heterogeneity of the distribution of the gradients is characteristic of the discontinuities in a stratified medium. The method is based on the characteristics of the discontinuities within the set of geological markers in order to obtain a better determination of these discontinuities.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fracture plane reconstruction in a three-dimensional set (20) of values, comprising the steps of providing a computer with the three-dimensional set, display by the computer of a succession of plane sections (10) of the three-dimensional set, selection by the user of points of the fracture plane over some of these sections during their display; and reconstruction by the computer of the fracture plane from the selected points.

Abstract: The aim of the present invention is the determination of the best possible correlation (keying) for electric recordings obtained in a borehole with seismic recordings obtained in a volume of subsoil (the seismic block) containing the bore. This is accomplished by defining in a neighborhood of the trajectory of the bore a set of layered networks, the entries of which are the seismic signals and the exits of which are electric signals. Accordingly, a quality measure is awarded with regard to the convergence. The best convergence quality then permits the determination of the best place in the neighborhood which produces the best keying.

Abstract: The aim of the present invention is the determination of the best possible correlation (keying) for electric recordings obtained in a borehole with seismic recordings obtained in a volume of subsoil (the seismic block) containing the bore. This is accomplished by defining in a neighbourhood of the trajectory of the bore a set of layered networks, the entries of which are the seismic signals and the exits of which are electric signals. Accordingly, a quality measure is awarded with regard to the convergence. The best convergence quality then permits the determination of the best place in the neighbourhood which produces the best keying.

Abstract: The method uses the image obtained by accumulating continuity curves representative of seismic horizons so as to determine the geological strata constituting the seismic section, such as they were deposited and not such as they are observed today. To do this, the method defines a transformation of the vertical scale of the seismic section, scale measured in seismic times, into a geological vertical scale measured in geological times. This transformation is based on an equalization of histograms. Starting from equalized histograms, the method makes it possible to determine equalized seismic sections which are used to determine the rates of sedimentation which governed the depositions of geological strata. In particular, it highlights geological hiatuses, that is to say erosions and gaps.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for detecting geological discontinuity in an environment using an optical flow. The method includes the steps of selecting in the seismic block a section containing at least one discontinuity. The section constitutes a seismic image. The method includes computing a rough optical flow on the seismic image to obtain a first representation of an optical flow wherein the discontinuity constitutes a moving front. The method also includes smoothing, by a non-supervised dynamic cluster process, the optical flow representation so as to obtain a second optical flow representation wherein the discontinuity shows accentuated contrasts.

Abstract: Method of detecting chaotic structures in a given medium. It is of the type consisting in: calculating the components of the light intensity gradient vector E at every point of a window F, centered on a point of a block representative of the medium, and it is characterized in that it furthermore consists in summing elementary matrices M for all the points of the window F, diagonalizing said sum matrix A so as to determine its eigenvalues &lgr;1, &lgr;2, &lgr;3, quantifying, at the center of the window, the minimum of the said eigenvalues &lgr;1, &lgr;2, &lgr;3, and with the constraint UT×D=1, eliminating the contribution of the largest eigenvalue, defining a multidirectional error by integrating it in the plane defined by the eigenvectors corresponding to the remaining eigenvalues, assigning the multidirectional error to the image point on which the window F is centered, and calculating the multidirectional errors assigned to all the image points of the image block.

Abstract: The method uses the image obtained by accumulating continuity curves representative of seismic horizons so as to determine the geological strata constituting the seismic section, such as they were deposited and not such as they are observed today. To do this, the method defines a transformation of the vertical scale of the seismic section, scale measured in seismic times, into a geological vertical scale measured in geological times. This transformation is based on an equalization of histograms. Starting from equalized histograms, the method makes it possible to determine equalized seismic sections which are used to determine the rates of sedimentation which governed the depositions of geological strata. In particular, it highlights geological hiatuses, that is to say erosions and gaps.

Abstract: Method for automatic detection of planar heterogeneities crossing the stratification of an environment.

Abstract: Each of the N surface images, used to restore the borehole or the core sample surface image, is segmented into related components (C(12), C(11), . . . ) Which are grouped into related regions (C(8)), each touching both the right and left edges of the image. After smoothing out their contours, the related regions are represented in the form of an image, called bed image, representative uftlle stratification beds. The contours appearing on the N bed images are matched to construct the bed boundary sinusoidal curves. This is particularly useful in determining stratification of a geological site.

Abstract: A method for locating and identifying site anomalies. According to the method, a given seismic block of seismic traces located by their space coordinates is used. The seismic block is demarcated in at least one time interval between a higher level and a lower level. A time-model of one anomaly is selected. The model is correlated with each of the traces within the time interval. For each trace, the maximum correlation (.GAMMA..sub.M)and the corresponding time (t.sub.i) of the said maximum correlation are calculated. A maxima correlation chart equal to the spatial dimensions of the seismic block and a chart of the times corresponding to the correlation maxima are drawn, in which the time chart is of the same dimensions and located in the same system of coordinates (x, y) as the maxima correlation chart.

Abstract: A method for obtaining a representation of the textures of a geological structure, characterized in that images characteristic of the sedimentology of the environment are formed, parameters corresponding to the nature of the images are estimated at every point of each image and in a spatial domain around the point so as to determine a texture vector for each of the points and to obtain a set of texture vectors. The method also includes the steps of selecting texture vectors representative of the characteristic textures of the geological environment in the set of texture vectors; and using a neural network formed of cells distributed in two dimensions which contains as many cells as characteristic textures. The selected texture vectors are used to submit the neural network to a learning process so that a final topology map of the textures characteristic of the geological environment is obtained.

Abstract: An automatic seismic pattern recognition method includes the steps of: determining a given number of seismic patterns to be recognized; providing a set of seismic trace portions for the region; defining a pattern recognition parameter common to all the trace portions, and determining the value of the parameters for each of the traces portions of the set. The method also includes the steps of: selecting trace portions of the set; selecting a one-dimensional neural network containing as many cells as there are patterns to be recognized where each cell is assigned a value of the recognition parameter; and submitting the neural network to a learning process with the selected trace portions so that at the end of the process each cell matches a pattern to be recognized and so that the patterns are progressively ordered.

Abstract: A method for plotting the surfaces in a 3D volume configured in the form of columns distributed over the nodes of a grid with the aid of 2D plotting algorithms by classifying the columns by way of a Peano-Hilbert curve.

Abstract: The process for analyzing a two-dimensional seismic cross-section image, including traces of a seismic cross-section, including processing the two-dimensional seismic cross-section with a binary function, a first value being assigned if a slope of the amplitude of the trace is positive, and a second value being assigned with a slope of the amplitude of the trace is negative, applying edge following techniques to the binarized image in order to determine contours of areas to be associated based on the first and second values, breaking down each of the contours into a series of chains, limited by turning points situated on each of the contours at a location where a direction changes from left to right or from right to left, when the contour is described in a given direction of rotation, breaking down each chain into contiguous curved segments such that a greatest distance between one point of each contiguous curved segment and a straight line segment joining the two ends the contiguous curved segement does not