GeoFrame

Description
GeoFrame is an industry-standard software package
produced by Schlumberger GeoQuest for managing and
analyzing borehole and seismic data. It has been in use by
ODP Logging Services for several years for processing and
interpreting Formation MicroScanner (FMS) resistivity
images. Log data, sent by satellite from the ODP drillship
to Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are processed using
GeoFrame software. This includes depth adjustments so that
there are no depth offsets between data from different
logging runs, corrections specific to certain tools and logs,
conversion of the data to a widely accessible format (ASCII
for the conventional logs, GIF for the FMS images), and
inclusion on the online ODP log database. More recently,
the seismic interpretation applications (IESX) within
GeoFrame have been used for generating synthetic
seismograms and interpreting seismic site surveys. Within
GeoFrame, data are stored in an Oracle database. The
software is available on the JOIDES Resolution and at the
BorView is the GeoFrame application that is used for
ODP log interpretation centers at New York, Leicester, analysis of image logs. This example of FMS data from
Montpellier, Tokyo, and Aachen. ODP Leg 193, Hole 1189B, shows altered and fractured
rhyodacite.

Applications
♦ Viewing, manipulating, and interpreting 1D log data
(resistivity, density, porosity, natural gamma radiation,
acoustic velocity, magnetic susceptibility, etc.)
♦ Viewing, manipulating, and interpreting 2D log data,
such as FMS images and resistivity-at-bit (RAB)
images, including orientations of dipping beds and
fractures
♦ Extensive seismic interpretation (IESX)
♦ Comparison of core and log data

System Requirements
Platform: Sun or SGI workstation
Operating system
Sun: Solaris 2.6 - 2.8 (Sun OS 5.6 - 5.8)
SGI: IRIX 6.5.9
Monitor: Multiple monitors recommended
WellEdit is the main log viewing and editing
application within GeoFrame. Here it is used to Data input (seismic lines): SEG-Y
display natural gamma, resistivity, sonic velocity, Data input (logs): DLIS
and caliper logs. Data input (logs, navigation): ASCII

ODP Logging Services, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Rt. 9W, Palisades, NY 10964
IESX
Description
IESX is a data integration package that allows the user to located in New York, Leicester, Montpellier, Tokyo and
integrate seismic, log, and physical properties data. It is part Aachen.
of Schlumberger GeoQuest’s GeoFrame software, and has
been in use by ODP, initially on a trial basis, since Leg 188. Procedures
IESX has proven to be especially effective in the integration Prior to a drilling leg, the available seismic navigation and
of log and seismic data into a single coherent project. Some trace (SEG-Y) data for the area are loaded into a GeoFrame/
of the features of IESX that are most useful to ODP scientists IESX project, along with the locations of existing and
include: 1) basemap display of seismic lines and wells; 2) proposed sites. During the leg, density and acoustic velocity
interactive 2-D visualization/interpretation of individual or data (from both core and downhole log measurements) are
intersecting seismic lines; 3) generation of synthetic loaded into IESX, and used as input for the synthetic
seismograms from density and acoustic velocity data, and seismogram. The reflections in the “synthetic” are matched
their superposition on seismic lines; 4) 3-D interactive to the reflections in the seismic section, so that the section
visualization of seismic lines and wells; and 5) basic can be interpreted in terms of the actual formations. Post-
manipulation of the seismic data, such as gain control and cruise, IESX output can be exported to other applications
filtering. GeoFrame and IESX software are available for use and combined with other data types to produce
by any ODP scientist at the ODP Log Analysis Centers comprehensive, integrated data sets.

IESX allows for the concurrent display of multiple applications. A typical screen configuration is
shown above, in which ship track data, seismic lines and synthetic seismograms are displayed in
separate application windows..

ODP Logging Services, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Rt. 9W, Palisades, NY 10964

11/2001