New Software Release

Product details

VISTA desktop seismic data processing software is a leading software package for the full range of processing tasks from field QC to complete processing of 2D and 3D seismic data. VISTA software is used around the world to process land, marine, ocean-bottom cable (OBC), and vertical seismic profile (VSP) data. VISTA software is a Windows application that is flexible, reliable, interactive, and easy to use.

VISTA 2018 is available in multiple license types:

• VISTA 2D and 3D Field QC is used in the field to perform rapid QC and simple processing up through a brute stack.
• VISTA 2D and 3D Field Pro package provides additional tools for today’s more sophisticated QC requirements, including poststack migration.
• VISTA 3D Full Pro offers a complete QC and processing solution, with all the field capabilities plus poststack line-tie and data merge, prestack migration, and time and depth image analysis.
• VISTA 2D and 3D VSP can be used for complete VSP QC and processing.

Release details

• New icon in Project Data list that enables inputting single or multiple disk files to the project so that the user to easily combine multiple files or create individual datasets from each file selection
• New interactive window for seismic data matching between two seismic datasets (bulk static, phase, scaling, and shaping)
• New Petrel E&P software platform plug-in link for data communication between VISTA software and Petrel platform for ZGY data
• Numerous enhancements to interactive velocity analysis (IVA)
  • Updated Picking Parameters window to separate out options for general, manual, and automatic picking options
  • Updated multiversion file system (MVFS) and concurrent versions system (CVS) settings for handling new and existing multiline projects, enabling the user to more easily handle multiple lines within the IVA session
  • Ability to leave velocity table open, not modal, enabling the user to choose a location from the surface map as well as the ability to update on line changes, velocity, ETA edits, and more
  • New option in 3D IVA to swap the Inline/Xline drop-down menu selection added to the right mouse button menu control for the Semblance, Gather, CVS, and ETA panels
  • Many new enhancements for creating and updating brute-stack QC
  • Ability to read in a Semblance reference velocity file and for users to set the color, line thickness, and display sample rate of the interpolated line

New IVA window hotkeys

• Change current edit mode (active in all panels)
  
  • V: Toggle velocity control on and/off. Use + and - keys to increase or decrease current velocity pick
  • I: Toggle picking. Velocity picking toggles Vnmo and Vint. Picking ETA toggles Effective and Interval ETA picking
  • T: Toggle timing lines. Use + and - keys to increase or decrease scaling of the current view
    • For 2D: Left and down decrease CMP increment; right and up increase CMP increment
    • For 3D: Left and right decrease or increase crossline increment; down and up decrease or increase inline increment
  • Arrow keys (left, down, right, and up)
    • For 2D: Left and down decrease CMP increment; right and up increase CMP increment
    • For 3D: Left and right decrease or increase crossline increment; down and up decrease or increase inline increment
• In Velocity Edit mode
  • Semblance View
    • A: Delete picks above the current time
    • B: Delete picks below the current time
    • D and DEL: Delete closest pick to current mouse time
• Standard keys
  • Gather view
    • A: Toggle automatic gain control (AGC)
    • F: Toggle filter
    • Z for 3D: Toggle azimuth restriction
    • N and P: If azimuth restriction is on, toggle to increment or decrement the azimuth angles
  • Gather view, top axis
    • 1: Standard two term
    • 2: Anisotropic Tsvankin
    • 3: Taner-Koehler two term
    • 4: Taner-Koehler four term
    • 5: Isotropic finite difference
    • 6: Anisotropic finite difference
    • 7: Apparent anisotropic moveout (AAMO) with ray bending
    • 8: Isotropic ray tracing
    • 9: Anisotropic ray velocity
  • MVFS (CVS) view
    • A: Toggle AGC
    • F: Toggle filter
• IVA surface map window enhancements
  • New velocity gradient attribute
  • New option in the 3D map view to turn velocity lines on and off through the RMB menu
  • New in 3D view: ability to select a velocity control using the middle mouse button
  • New RMB menu option to remove all defined polygon areas when creating polygon areas; control selections are reset when polygons are deleted
  • Added keyboard controls (up, down, left, and right) to the 3D view to control the inline and crossline
• IVA ETA enhancements
  • New options added to the ETA display dialog: updating the window on effective or interval changes, toggle display of the ETA zero line, and improved color bar editing
  • New Snap Effective ETA Picking option that enables creating interval ETAs set to zero at all Vnmo picks and then calculates the effective ETA from this and sets the other values (VxEff and VxInterval) accordingly
  • New option in the ETA window to remove current ETA picks
  • New ETA velocity pick functions
    • Flood current ETA picks
    • Flood zero ETA picks at Vnmo times
    • Snap or Interpolate ETA picks to Vnmo times
• Enhancements to existing flow commands
  • Radon Transform: Added weighed least squares options to improve demultiplex performance along with the ability to run the transform in the time domain
  • Remote Instrument Input: Added option to input LDF disk files
  • 2D VSP-CDP Transform: New options to load a 2D surface line, map complex reflection curves, and output fold and inverse fold
  • VSP Spherical Divergence: New options added for cosine power for emergence angle compensation for converted waves
  • Mute Data Traces: New option to apply a cosine mute taper
  • VSP 2D/3D Depth Migration: New options to load a 2D surface line, apply a maximum angle mute, and output fold and inverse fold
  • VSP Corridor Stack: New option to support deviated wells
  • VSP Vertical Times Correction and Datum Statics Flow: New option for commands to calculate and apply two-way time datum statics
  • New zoom-lock function in the Seismic Window Horizontal and Vertical Axis menu bars
  • New options in the Plot Montage Window Trace graph display to plot the line parameter as an interval, continuous, or spiked display
  • New flow commands
    • LDFDisk: Read Schlumberger LDF disk files into VISTA software
    • HRRadon: Run high-resolution Radon transforms
    • FX IIR: Perform frequency-domain dip filtering
    • CRSSTk: Output a simplified 2D common reflection surface stack
    • MinPhase: Convert data to minimum phase
    • VSPCoti: Perform automatic QC for VSP first-break time picks
  • New VSP Well Look Ahead window features
    • New spike option added to the reflectivity display
    • Ability to output the velocity as a VSP profile
    • Impedance display as interval parameter or steps
    • Cursor tracking and crosshair broadcast over all subwindows in the time and depth domain
  • New options in 2D/3D Interferometric Refraction Statics for the delay time stack calculation, picking, and upgraded dialogs as well as significantly improved overall program run time
  • Enhancements to the Edit LAS File Window
    • Math operation to assign a constant value
    • Options to vertically display the curves by default and interpolate null values on all curves
    • Ability to autoblock LAS log curves and output the blocked sonic log as a VISTA software VSP velocity file
    • Merging of curves with different sample rates
    • Conversion of LAS log file units
    • New options to undo last action, delete, restore, and despike curves
  • Upgrading of 3D VSP ray tracing to enable working with complex structures
  • New options in Convert Velocity File format function to redatum the velocity file between fixed and floating datum along with the ability to change the bin grid and assign coordinate values
  • Enhancements to the Interactive 2D/3D VSP Model Building window
    • Create a model by importing seismic horizons and interpolating layers in between using the VSP velocity profile velocity following the well deviation
    • Dip the model layer by setting azimuth and dipping angle
    • Create new layer by splitting current layer
    • Import interval velocity from VISTA software depth dataset
    • Calculate and save to headers reflection times from current horizon
    • New 2D surface line options to auto calculate, display, edit, reset, save and load
    • Create a new model or insert a new layer between two existing layers using a surface seismic velocity file
    • Insert horizons at the wellhead in all Insert Layer/Read Layer From Text File operations
    • Automatically reset the velocity limits after inversion and tomography
    • Create a dataset from raytracing, and obtain the amplitude using Zoeppritz equations
    • Change velocity limits on selected layers using new option to reset, expand, and apply
  •  VSP Velocity Profile Display enhancements include the ability to compare VSP velocity functions and files along with the addition of the following depth-to-time functions:
    • depth MD (kelly bushing [KB])–Time (Field Record
    • depth TVD (KB)–Time (Field Record)
    • depth TVD (KB)–Time (Datum)
    • depth TVD (Datum): Time (Field Record)
    • depth TVD (Datum): Time (Datum)        
  • New options in the Q Attenuation Window to toggle on the display of the ratio deviation curve and output the curve in a cumulative attenuation file
  • Log functions that now enable the user to read in a VSP velocity function for depth-time conversion and to calculate the start time of an LAS log

Suitable for

Geophysicists involved in field QC and processing of 2D and 3D seismic data acquired on land, offshore, or through VSP.