Workshop 4

Description

Detailed characterization of the near surface is essential for the success of industrial projects in the energy, mining or civil engineering domain. Although seismics plays a key role for deeper subsurface imaging, high-quality images are difficult to obtain in the presence of a complex near surface (variable geological features, complex topography). The near surface or near-seafloor is the primary target of investigation are themselves targets for the mapping of water resources, site characterization, mining, shallow hazard mitigation, and cavity detection.

In this workshop, we bring together expertise on different approaches from seismic to multi-physics data for the near-surface characterization. Seismic data (reflection/refraction/surface/guided waves or borehole) or other geophysical measurements (electro-magnetics, gravity, magnetics, etc..) as well as well attributes (logs, checkshots, etc ..) are frequently used to obtain high-quality images of the shallow near surface. The integration/combining of these different types of data through various approaches (e.g., joint inversion, artificial intelligence, advanced processing techniques) bring an invaluable information for a range of application in oil and gas, geothermal, renewables or civil and geotechnical engineering in land and marine environments. 

In this workshop, we aim to facilitate open discussion on pros and cons of various data integration strategies, discover the variety of applications, and discuss routes ahead on this topic.

Sub-Topics that will be covered in the workshop:

Topics we would like to discuss during this workshop could be related from acquisition to the processing to improve the near-surface characterization.

We will be opened to contributions coming from the acquisition side, methodology through case studies, or new algorithms to process different types of data.