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Integrated Internet collaboration

3DGeo Development Inc., Mountain View, California, U.S.

Corresponding author: dimitri@3DGeo.com

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The last four years have brought tremendous advances in software applications, software tools, and software systems for modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating an enterprise's computer applications. Many companies have existing legacy applications and databases and want to continue to use them while adding or migrating to a new set of applications that exploit the Internet, e-commerce, Intranet, remote collaboration, independence from operating systems, and other new technologies. They should be able to do this because the new software tools have orders of magnitude more functionality than mid-1990s software applications that relied on Xwindows, some mathematical libraries, and a compiler. The built-in network communications, remote collaboration support, database support, and 3D and 2D graphic libraries give programmers the power to create industrial strength solutions that integrate all these new technologies in a specific application—for example, a data-processing or depth-imaging system.

The growing acceptance of e-business technology, high-speed networks, and software tools based on the portable Java environment allow Internet collaboration for velocity model building and real-time QC of depth imaging projects.

Geophysicists also have a new way to use the Internet for seismic interpretation, collaboration, and visualization. Internet seismic processing (INSP) provides globally accessible processing tools on demand and as needed, without the burden of equipment purchases and hardware administration.

Until recently, seismic image collaboration/interpretation by a group of geoscientists required all parties to be in the same room. Furthermore, visualization was available only on high-end graphic interpretation workstations. INSP brings these capabilities to any desktop. This is critical for depth imaging because depth velocity model building in complex areas is a highly interpretive task that benefits greatly from 3D visualization, QC, and collaboration—all of which are tied together through INSP. This paper describes how this technology, by leveraging the explosion of modern software developments and growing acceptance of e-business technology, is . . . [Full Text of this Article]