Robertson Research is a geological and geophysical consultancy for the oil- exploration industry. We process man-made seismic data to determine the structure of rocks deep beneath the ground and identify places where oil and gas might be found. Our raw data is recorded as gigabytes of multichannel time-series and processing it effectively creates many challenges for any computer system.
One of our final products is a display of 2D cross-sections through the earth. The choice of effective parameters at every stage of the processing is both a science and an art and there are many requirements for tools to display various attributes of the data, both interactively and as hardcopy.
A variety of applications using UNIRAS AGX on HP and IBM computers will be discussed, with commentary on the sort of problems encountered in a commercial production environment.