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How To Monitor Possible Side Effects Of Enhanced Oil Recovery Process, Jose Manuel Dominguez Esquivel, Solymar Ayala Cortez, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Kreinovich
How To Monitor Possible Side Effects Of Enhanced Oil Recovery Process, Jose Manuel Dominguez Esquivel, Solymar Ayala Cortez, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Kreinovich
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To extract all the oil from a well, petroleum engineers pump hot reactive chemicals into the well. This enhanced oil recovery process needs to be thoroughly monitored, since the aggressively hot liquid can seep out and, if unchecked, eventually pollute the sources of drinking water. At present, to monitor this process, engineers measure the seismic waves generated when the liquid fractures the minerals. However, the resulting seismic waves are weak in comparison with the background noise. Thus, the accuracy with which we can locate the spreading liquid based on these weak signals is low, and we get only a very …
How Geophysicists' Intuition Helps Seismic Data Processing, Afshin Gholamy, Vladik Kreinovich
How Geophysicists' Intuition Helps Seismic Data Processing, Afshin Gholamy, Vladik Kreinovich
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
In geophysics, signals come with noise. It is desirable to minimize the effect of this noise. If we knew the probabilities of different values of signal and noise, we could use statistical filtering techniques. In geophysics, however, we rarely know the exact values of these probabilities; instead, we have to rely on the expertise and intuition of experts. We show how fuzzy techniques can transform this expertise into precise de-noising methods, we explain that the resulting methods indeed satisfy several natural requirements, and that these methods are in good accordance with heuristic techniques successfully used by geophysicists.