I gave this class part of the Geophysical Society of Houston annual Geophysics Academy. Advanced Depth Imaging Agenda Alexander Mihai Popovici, CEO, Z-Terra Inc. Velocity Model Building Main concepts and the evolution over time of migration velocity analysis (MVA) and tomography. Automatic PSTM velocity model computation methods . PSDM velocity model, tomography and evolving the velocity model from time to depth. Effect of rugosities on top structures for … [Read more...]

In November 2018, serving as First Vice President on the SEG Board I wrote a short article on the state of our industry looking at the evolution of the main service companies in our industry from 2012-2018 for the TLE President’s Page that appeared in the December 2018 issue, you can find a copy here: https://library.seg.org/doi/10.1190/tle37120872.1 or here: http://www.alexanderbrad.com/2018/11/the-state-of-our-industry/ I decided to revisit the numbers in 2024, in the November 2018 article … [Read more...]

When I posted in LinkedIn a link to my Geophysical Society of Houston Technical Lunch in order to generate some publicity for my talk on Beam Tomography, one of the interesting comments from a colleague at a large service company was that Beam Technology is “a technology with many benefits that unfortunately is commonly regarded as old school / low tech.”  I loved the comment because it allows me to talk about one of my favorite business concepts that I always look around to apply, and that … [Read more...]

In the last post, I explained the title of the column comes from the book by Charles Murray The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead.  With the Curmudgeon in mind, I have a few more comments to make about our life as Researchers, pushing the leading edge of technology in our industries.  In small companies it helps to be a contrarian, to develop novel algorithms in areas overlooked by large research groups or the academic groups funded by them.  One such technology that our group started working … [Read more...]