Studentships and Postdoctoral Positions

Contact M.D.Sacchi if you are interested in graduate or post-graduate work in the following areas: seismic imaging, noise attenuation with transform methods, seismic data reconstruction, inversion, application of imaging and novel data processing method to problems in exploration and global seismology.

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The Signal Analysis and Imaging Group carries out research in the area of seismic signal processing, inversion, and imaging.

Our research is funded by a group of industrial sponsors with interest in the development of advance techniques and algorithms for processing and imaging seismic data.

News

  • Recent Awards 

     
    GeoConvention 2014, Congratulations Rob and Amsalu for their awards
     
    • Rob Ferner, Reverse time migration of prestack elastic data, Best Student Geophysics Poster Award
    • Amsalu Anagaw, Model parametrization strategies for Newton-based acoustic full waveform inversion, Best Student Geophysical Oral Presentation Awardorde

     

    Best Paper in the Recoder 2013

     

    • Stanton and Sacchi, All roads lead to Rome: predictability, sparsity, rank and pre-stack seismic data reconstruction [see paper]

     

     

     

  •  SAIG Annual Meeting to be held in Calgary, December 9-10 2013

    ​Agenda

    Venue: University of Alberta Calgary Office


     Sam Kaplan recipient of the 2013 Clarence Karcher Award

    University of Alberta ​and SAIG graduate Sam Kaplan (PhD, 2010) has won the 2013 J. Clarence Karcher Award for young scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the science and technology of exploration geophysics.

     

     


     Aaron Stanton receives best SEG 2012 poster award 

    A comparison of 5D reconstruction methods [pdf]

    • Mostafa Naghizadeh is the recipient of the Clarence Karcher Award 2011

     

    Mostafa was recognized for developing algorithms for multi-dimensional seismic data reconstruction. His work has been studied world-wide because of its importance to solving this ubiquitous seismic imaging problem. 

     

     

     

     

  • Studentships and Postdoctoral Positions

    Contact M.D.Sacchi if you are interested in graduate or post-graduate work in the following areas: seismic imaging, noise attenuation with transform methods, seismic data reconstruction, inversion, application of imaging and novel data processing method to problems in exploration and global seismology.

Research Highlights

  • Sparse coding for random and coherent noise attenuation

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    (a) The basis patches found from sparse coding.

  • Sparse coding for random and coherent noise attenuation

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    (b) (left) Data from which the basis patches are found, (centre) filtered data, and (right) the residuals.

  • Sparse-coding for data-driven coherent and incoherent noise attenuation

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    (a) Basis patches found by sparse coding. Sparse-coding for data-driven coherent and incoherent noise attenuation by Kaplan, Sacchi and Ulrych, 2009 (submitted).

  • Sparse-coding for data-driven coherent and incoherent noise attenuation

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    (b) The CMP gather from which the basis are found. (c) Multiples estimate found using sparse coding. (d) Multiple suppression using sparse coding. (e) Multiples estimate using the parabolic Radon transform. (f) Multiple suppression using the parabolic Radon transform. From Sparse-coding for data-driven coherent and incoherent noise attenuation by Kaplan, Sacchi and Ulrych, 2009 (submitted).

  • Interpolation with f-x adaptive filters

    Distance (m)

    Adaptive interpolation of curved events via recursive prediction filters. a) Data prior to interpolation. From Naghizadeh and Sacchi, 2009, F-X Adaptive Seismic Trace Interpolation, Geophysics 72 (6), V111-V118.

  • Interpolation with f-x adaptive filters

    Distance (m)

    Adaptive interpolation of curved events via recursive prediction filters. b) Data after adaptive interpolation. From Naghizadeh and Sacchi, 2009, F-X Adaptive Seismic Trace Interpolation, Geophysics 72 (6), V111-V118.

  • Interpolation with local sparse Radon transforms

    A sparse (high resolution) local Radon transform is used to reconstruct aliased data. From Sacchi et. al, 2007, Local Wavefield Operators, Radon Transforms and Sparsity, EAGE Workshop on Curvelets, London

  • Best Student Geophysical oral Presentation award at GeoConvention 2014

    Amsalu Anagaw recieved the Best Student Geophysical oral Presentation award at GeoConvention 2014 for the paper Model parametrization strategies for Newton-based acoustic full waveform inversion. 

     

  • GeoConvention 2014 Best Geophysics Poster

    Rob Ferner recieved the Best Geophysics Poster Award at the GeoConvention 2014 for Reverse time migration of prestack elastic data

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