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SEG-Y to ESRI format

  • 1 August 2017
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I'm looking for ideas on how to get started with converting a SEG-Y file into something that can be readable/visualized by ESRI products. When I input my segy file I get the header and trace feature types but the attributes are similar to the post below. All ideas are appreciated.

 

 

https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/41451/how-to-read-binary-header-samples-etc-from-a-segy.html

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Hi @jburroughs are you able to share the SEGY file with us? If not in the public forum then would you please submit a case an send an example to us at technical support here: https://www.safe.com/support/

 

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I can advise that the original SEG-Y reader/writer were built to just read the headers and carry the rest of the data through FME as a blob. The original idea was the reproject the SEG-Y headers (for NAD27 to NAD83).

Time has moved on and maybe we should try to decode the SEG-Y further. If anyone has interest or specs, please do let us know. @luigibr Sorry for not picking this up when you asked a while back -- please do send any hints you have for us in to support@safe.com

I'm working on getting a CA worked up so I can submit the data for a case.

 

 

@dalesafe Here is some information about SEG-Y: This is the SEG-Y rev 2 specification

http://seg.org/Portals/0/SEG/News%20and%20Resources/Technical%20Standards/seg_y_rev2_0-mar2017.pdf and the SEG-Y rev 1 specification

https://www.seg.org/Portals/0/SEG/News%20and%20Resources/Technical%20Standards/seg_y_rev1.pdf. In addition, this link is to a free SEG-Y viewer, SeiSee and related utilities http://www.dmng.ru/en/freeware.html along with the URL to the SeiSee user manual:

http://www.dmng.ru/docs/Freeware/seisee/html/SeiSeeEng.htm Here are some links to access SEG-Y data http://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Open_data#3D_marine_seismic_data and

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-326/index.htm . This is a link to Geosoft's utility for importing SEG-Y into Oasis montaj. BTW It would be very useful if FME supported the Geosoft data formats since Geosoft is widely used in the geoscience community.

Lastly, here are the various specifications and documents from the IOGP Geomatics (i.e. EPSG) group: http://www.iogp.org/geomatics/#geophysical-operations

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@dalesafe Here is some information about SEG-Y: This is the SEG-Y rev 2 specification

http://seg.org/Portals/0/SEG/News%20and%20Resources/Technical%20Standards/seg_y_rev2_0-mar2017.pdf and the SEG-Y rev 1 specification

https://www.seg.org/Portals/0/SEG/News%20and%20Resources/Technical%20Standards/seg_y_rev1.pdf. In addition, this link is to a free SEG-Y viewer, SeiSee and related utilities http://www.dmng.ru/en/freeware.html along with the URL to the SeiSee user manual:

http://www.dmng.ru/docs/Freeware/seisee/html/SeiSeeEng.htm Here are some links to access SEG-Y data http://wiki.seg.org/wiki/Open_data#3D_marine_seismic_data and

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-326/index.htm . This is a link to Geosoft's utility for importing SEG-Y into Oasis montaj. BTW It would be very useful if FME supported the Geosoft data formats since Geosoft is widely used in the geoscience community.

Lastly, here are the various specifications and documents from the IOGP Geomatics (i.e. EPSG) group: http://www.iogp.org/geomatics/#geophysical-operations

Heya @chucklopez Thanks for sharing this information! I encourage you create an idea on the Geosoft formats (I will vote on it ;-). Also Check out and vote on this idea here on improving segy handling in FME.

 

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