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Fall 2024
This thesis advances seismic imaging and inversion, crucial for identifying hydrocarbon prospects and understanding the Earth's internal structure by retrieving rock parameters from seismic data. Facing challenges such as solution non-uniqueness, slow convergence, and high computational demands,...
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Fall 2020
Fire and insect outbreaks are the two leading natural disturbance factors affecting Canadian forests. Over the last 20 years Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonous ponderosae Hopkins) has killed more than 50 percent of western Canada’s merchantable lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests and spread...
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Fall 2017
In the time-lapse seismic method, often referred to as 4D seismic, a series of seismic data sets are acquired at different times to study the temporal variation of a target subsurface reservoir. This technique is being used as a subsurface monitoring tool in the oil and gas industry for fluid...