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Written for practicing geophysicists, this is a comprehensive guide to understanding and analysing seismic data. The culmination of land seismic data acquisition and processing projects conducted by the author over the last two decades, the book contains nearly 800 figures from worldwide case studies - conducted in both 2D and 3D.

Describes the theory and practice of inverting seismic data for subsurface rock properties of the earth. The primary application is for inverting reflection and transmission data from engineering or exploration surveys, but methods also can be used for earthquake studies. Computational labs are provided for most chapters.

With case studies in all applications of engineering seismology, this book focuses on the application of the seismic method to geotechnical site investigations for buildings and infrastructures, landslide and active-fault investigations, and seismic microzonation. The broader scope includes exploration of earth resources and geothermal exploration.

Seismic interpretation can be made simple and robust by integrating rock physics principles with seismic and petrophysical attributes bearing on properties of conventional and unconventional reservoirs. Practical solutions to interpretation problems in AVO analysis and inversion are addressed to streamline workflows in subsurface characterization.

From fundamentals to present AVO, it includes: Gassmann's equations and fluid substitution, Zoeppritz equations approximations, seismic amplitudes and processing considerations, interpretation techniques, the influence of anisotropy, the use of AVO inversion, the estimation of uncertainty, converted-wave AVO, and the future of the AVO method.

The reservoir-engineering tutorial discusses issues and data critically important engineers. The geophysics tutorial has explanations of the tools and data in case studies. Then each chapter focuses on a phase of field life: exploration appraisal, development planning, and production optimization. The last chapter explores emerging technologies.

Expanding the author's original work on processing to include inversion and interpretation, and including developments in all aspects of conventional processing, this two-volume set is a comprehensive and complete coverage of the modern trends in the seismic industry - from time to depth, from 3D to 4D, from 4D to 4C, and from isotropy to anisotropy.

A thorough introduction to acquisition, processing, and interpretation, it includes: seismic wave phenomena in acoustic, elastic, and porous media; creating 2D and 3D images from field data; dip moveout, prestack migration, and depth migration; limitations of 3D seismic interpretation; and the role of attributes, impedance estimation, and AVO.