Education

CSEG DoodleTrain

Wave Equation Imaging: Theory and Practice (CANCELLED)

Instructor: Rob Ferguson
Date: November 3 - 4, 2010
Duration: 2 days
Members (early bird/price): $700/$900 CDN (plus GST)
Non-Members (early bird/price): $800/$1000 CDN (plus GST)

Venue: TBA
Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm


Course Description:

This is an intensive two day course designed for those interested in the theory and numerical implementation of the common algorithms in seismic depth migration.

Course Outline:

  • Background mathematics and reflection seismology basics.
  • A model of seismic reflection, imaging, and computation.
  • Phaseshift migration.
  • ω–x migration.
  • Generalized-screen migration.
  • PSPI migration and comparisons.

Who should attend this course:

In particular, this course will interest software developers, seismic data processors, students, and interpreters working in complex geology.

Presenter / Instructor Biography:

Rob Ferguson
Dr. Robert J. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary and an Associate Director of CREWES (Consortium for Research in Elastic Wave Exploration Seismology). Upon graduation from UBC with his B.Sc., Rob began his career in geophysics as an air gun mechanic on exploration ships in the Beaufort Sea, and then as a seismic data processor. Following graduate school at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Dr. Robert R. Stewart and then Dr. Gary F. Margrave, Rob worked as a Lead Research Scientist with Chevron in San Ramon California in the Seismic Imaging Team. After a couple of years, Rob was lured to the University of Texas, Austin with an Assistant Professorship in exploration geophysics. At UT, Rob continued his research in seismic imaging and inversion. Following his promotion to Associate Professor, Rob left Texas to return to Calgary and join the U of C and CREWES. Rob's current interests are in one-way operator based imaging, modelling, and inversion of multi-component seismic data.

Contact Information:
Robert J. Ferguson,
Department of Geoscience University of Calgary,
rjfergus@ucalgary.ca