Gph 411: Geophysical data processing

Topics to be Covered
	No of Weeks	Contact hours
Principles of Fourier analysis and frequency filtering	2	4
Gravity and Magnetic data processing:
Separation techniques of Regional and residual: visual analysis, polynomial representation, Fourier analysis	2	4
Transformations: upward and downward continuation, horizontal and vertical derivatives, horizontal gradients and boundary analysis, analytic signal.	3	6
Gravity and magnetic modeling	3	6
Seismic data processing: Static corrections, convolution and deconvolution, dynamic corrections, velocity analyses and stacking, filtering, migration.	5	10

 

Schedule of Assessment Tasks for Students During the Semester
Assessment	Assessment task (eg. essay, test, group project, examination etc.)	Week due	Proportion of Final Assessment
1	In class short quiz	5th	5%
2	Mid-Term Exam	8th	20%
3	In class short quiz	11th	5%
5	lab exam	15th	30%
6	Final exam	16th	40%

 

Text books and references

* Kearey, et al.., 2002. An introduction to geophysical exploration. Blackwell 262 p.
 * Blakely, R., 1996. Potential Theory in Gravity and Magnetic Applications. Cambridge University Press, 441 p.
* Lowrie W.,  Fundamentals of  Geophysics. Cambridge 
* Reynolds, J., Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2009.
* Telford, W., Geldart, L., and Sheriff, R., 1990. Applied geophysics, second edition. Cambridge University  Press.