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Advanced Topics in Petroleum Geophysics - GEOS3371
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: GEOS3331 plus a level 1 Geoscience course
 
 
Excluded: GEOS3341
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course will provide students with more advanced training in the state-of- the-art software, geophysical theory and case studies. It will prepare students for honours or other advanced studies in geophysics. Topics include: seismic data inversion, geostatistics and spatial analysis, amplitude variation with offset, analysis of 4D (time lapse) data. Various geophysical processing packages will be used during the course. Students will also undertake some individual topics.

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