New Software Release

Product overview

VISTA desktop seismic data processing software provides data processing from early-stage acquisition QC to final processing and interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic data acquired on land or offshore or as a vertical seismic profile (VSP), in all industry and manufacturer data formats.

With VISTA software, you can easily navigate workflows and seamlessly evaluate datasets using the interactive and interlinked displays. You can also add in your own algorithms through a C++ or MATLAB SDK interface. The software supports advanced processing capabilities including AVO and angle of incidence (AVA) analysis, multicomponent processing, and 2D and 3D VSP processing.

VISTA is available in four modules, 2D/3D Field QC, 2D/3D Field Processing, and 2D/3D Full Processing, and VSP.

• 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 updates

• 3D refraction diving-wave/turning-ray tomography and tomostatics has been added as an option into the interactive Elevation/Refraction Statics window
• New interactive AVO/AVA modeling window is available for all land, marine, and VSP data types
• Interactive WavanaPro editor window
• Enhancements to existing flow commands
  • Ensemble record QC data calculation—A Trace Selection tab has been added to the command to enable users to define trace selections with the module
  • Input SEG-D disk files—A new Channel Set tab has been added to select traces from a SEG-D record based on the Channel Set Number or Channel Index Number from within the file
  • Output SEG-Y/SEG-D/LDF disk files—Added the abbreviation #INFILENAME which will now enable users to automatically name output data files based on the input name of the file
  • Time merge—A new option to define the merge start and end time has been added to enable the user to select header words to define the window
  • Surface consistent scaling—The ability has been added to the SCScale command to save more header information related to trace kills
  • Seismic display window—A new option has been added to the interactive Seismic display window to handle displaying data from a remote session
  • Remote instrument file input—New options are now available when importing SEG-D files remotely to specify the input data type and ability to apply MP Factor to the data
  • Header view window display—Several new enhancements are included in the VISTA 2019 release:
    • Adds the ability to group header graphs together
    • Simplifies the spreadsheet dialog for setup of header display parameter
    • When inputting data from the Remote Input command, a new Remote Ensemble display mode option has been added to control how the display is updated
  • VSP Frequency Decon—A new smoothing operator has been added to the VSP FD Deconvolution command to enable application of a Gaussian filter
• New flow commands
  • Updates 2D VSP geometry
  • Generates shot records from P190 file
  • SEG/UKOOA ADS Trace Edit/Trace Kill
  • Includes industrial-generated noise attenuation
  • Includes angle mute input gather traces
  • Includes 2D VSP depth migration
  • Includes VSP parametric wave separation
  • Includes VSP Model-based NMO
  • Includes super shot analysis
  • Applies 2D/3D dip field static shift
  • Includes output Eta file
  • Includes option to create ghost operator
• Enhancements to First Break Picking window
  
  • The picking options dialog now can remain open to enable users to test auto picking parameters on the current record without having to close and reopen the dialo
  • Selections to add and remove header columns have been included to enable users to modify the columns in the output FBP file
  • New option has been added to the picking options to enable users to select which header is used to save first break pick values
  • Automatic 3C VSP First Break Picking window has been updated in VISTA 2019 to support the application of 2D data
• New Time/Trace display scaling option has been added to the Seismic Plot Parameters
• Two new overlay options have been added to the default color bar plotting list to include Overlay Seismic and Velocity
• New Seismic window right-click menu enables users to quickly access sort information for a selected dataset
• New option has been added to the interactive Kill Trace options to enable users to define multiple headers for use in the selection of traces to kill
• New options have been added to the 3D horizon picking toolbar to interpolate missing picks and smooth 3D horizons
• Updates to interactive menus, tabs, toolbar icons, and job flow menus
  
  • Icon for adding notes and menu option to display the VISTA software command window are now accessed through right-click menus
  • Tabs for sorting, files, and notes are now included in the top tab list
  • VSP job flow commands are now organized into five groups for easier access to specific command modules
  • Seismic window Add Notes icon has been removed from the vertical toolbar and relocated to the right-click menu
  • Interactive menu selections for the following are now located in a common grouping:
    • Land and Marine geometry selections are located together under the main Geometry window group.
    • The Wavelet Create selection is located under the Create Data Set group
    • Data Matching and Line Tie are now located in the Merge Tie windows group
• Enhancements to the Sonic Log Calibrate window
  • New options have been added to the Sonic Log Calibration window to toggle on the display of log curves and formation tops
  • Additional functions are now available on the vertical toolbar to enable users to save and load drift pick files into the interactive window
  • Support has been added to the Sonic Log Calibration window to automatically verify the units in the log curve are consistent. A user prompt will appear if a conversion is required
• Enhancements to the VSP Velocity Profile window
  
  • New option added to the Velocity Profile window enables define and reset of Vp/Vs ratio
  • New option in VISTA 2019 enables users to display the log velocity as a background track in the Velocity Profile window
  • New right-click menu option is now available in the Velocity Profile window to toggle LAS log curves on/off
• New option in the Job Flow window enables users to create custom flow groups that contain frequently accessed commands
• Users can now enter defined variable strings into a header edit equation. Names that are entered in the variable string spreadsheet can also be used in the equation builder
• New search tool enables manual entry of a sort value to jump to that record
• Enhancements to the VSP Q interactive window
  
  • New right-click menu option is now available in the Q Attenuation to toggle LAS log curves on/off
  • Two new options added to the right-click menu for the calculation of Q, enabling users to calculate using depth picks or a drift method to estimate Q values
• Enhancements to interactive header view\edit window
  
  • A new color fill menu option is available when users write on a column title in the header view\edit window
  • A new multiheader toolbar icon has been added in VISTA 2019 to provide more control of the interactive header display
• Enhancement to Log Editing Utility
  
  • Option added to output the blocked curve to a 1D model file to be used in the AVO/AVA modeling window
  • TOPS dialog has been enhanced to enables users to display individual formation tops and adjust the display parameters
  • New option is available in VISTA 2019 to estimate Gardner parameters from sonic and density logs
  • New toolbar option added in VISTA 2019 enables users to combine log curves from multiple LAS files
• New Sort Group option has been added to the Seismic Plot parameters
• Enhancement to Velocity Analysis
  
  • A new corridor stack option for displaying stack trace data in the Velocity view
  • Ability to apply statics in real time from multiple user defined static files or data headers is now available in VISTA 2019
  • Mute function can now be displayed on uncorrected gathers
  • New tools for working with guide controls for 3D
  • Ability to save attributes displayed in the QC Velocity Map window and output to ASCII-formatted files (X, Y, Attribute)
  • New multiuser attributes that include the ability to differentiate between different users working in the same velocity analysis project
  • Ability to write and read the parameter settings for all display, picking, and processing dialog windows
  • Functionality added for flooding, mathematics, and auto-picking velocities and Eta values
  • The mute function can now be displayed on uncorrected gathers
• New menu selection added to the attribute right-click menu enables users to control the appearance of the polygon area
• Enhancements to interactive VSP Look Ahead window
  
  • Ability to output depth/time results from a selection of depth references
  • New feature added to the Corridor Stack options enables users to set the reference time from D\datum
• Enhancements to interactive 2D and 3D VSP Model Building window
  
  • New layer operation added in VISTA 2019 enables users to apply a spatial velocity gradient in a user selected X/Y direction or to optionally apply the gradient and limit velocity between layers
  • Horizons in depth can now be imported from a space-delimited ASCII file
  • Ability to define thin layers has been added to VISTA 2019
  • New Reset Min Layer Thickness options enable users to increase the distance between layers
  • Ability for users to define a dip horizon layer is now available in the VSP Model Building window, along with options to truncate the layer
  • New feature added in VISTA 2019 enables users to load 2D or 3D depth seismic datasets into the Model Building window
  • New layer option added in VISTA 2019 enables users to calculate and save reflection angles to the input data headers
  • Users can now define and create CMP numbering based on a user-defined depth and save the input data to the headers

Users

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