Velocity menus

November 1999
Velocity Information/Table





The Time Velocity Entry menu can be displayed from any menu that requires a velocity
function. This menu appears when you click on the Open TV Table button. The initial menu
shows only a single control point location, but you may add as many as you wish. An asterisk in
the location box label(s) identifies the current control point.

The defaults for the menu are to define the location of a control point by its inline/crossline
number, and to specify the time as a two-way time in milliseconds and the velocity as an interval
velocity in meters/second. You can change these defaults by pressing the Control button.
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To specify a velocity control point, set the location in the Inline and Xline boxes, then enter any
number of time velocity pairs into the Time and Velocity boxes.

Add: Press this button to complete the definition of the current velocity control point, and to
create two new columns for the next control point.

Delete: Press this button to remove the current velocity control point.

Delete All: Press this button to remove all of the velocity control points.

Duplicate: Press this button to make a copy of the current velocity control point. This option
lets you save some typing when two control points contain similar time velocity pairs.

Control: Press this button to display the Control Panel menu, if you wish to change the control
point location method or the units for either the time or velocity.
Velocity menus
November 1999
Velocity Information/Table/Control Panel





The Time Velocity Control Panel menu is displayed when you click on the Control Panel
button of the Time Velocity Entry menu. The defaults for time, velocity, and location values
on the Time Velocity Entry menu can be changed from this menu.

The items available on this menu are:

Move current columns: These four arrow buttons allow you to move the current control point
on the Time Velocity Entry menu, when you have more than one. The current control
point is the one at the CDP or Inline/Xline location shown at the top of this menu. The
button labeled | <= moves the current control point to the beginning of the list, while the
<< button moves it one position to the left. Similarly, the >> button moves the control
point one position to the right, and the => | button moves it to the end of the list.

Location Type: The location of a control point can be set to one of CDP, Inline Xline, or X Y.
Selecting CDP means that the Time Velocity Entry menu will have one field to set the
location, while the others require two. The program will compare the location value(s)
with the corresponding word(s) in the trace headers to determine where to insert the
control into the seismic data.
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Velocity Type: The velocities specified at a control point can be either Interval or RMS (Root
Mean Square) values. If necessary, a conversion will be done to the type appropriate for
the process.

Time Type: The times defining the velocity function can be either One Way or Two Way
times, but they will always be in milliseconds.

Velocity Unit: The velocities at any control point can be measured as either velocities or transit
times, and the units can be one of m/s, ft/s, km/s, us/m, us/ft, ms/m, or ms/ft. The
measurement system will default to either Metric or Imperial, depending on the offset
measurement units found in the binary header of the seismic data file.

Import: When you click on this button, another menu will be displayed that allows you to read
an existing ASCII file containing one or more velocity functions.

Export: When you click on this button, a File Selection dialog will be displayed that allows
you to write an ASCII file containing one or more velocity functions.
Velocity menus
November 1999
Control Panel/Import





The Time Velocity Read ASCII menu is displayed when you click on the Import button of the
Control Panel menu. This menu consists of two pages, the first of which allows you to select
the ASCII velocity function file and define its layout, while the second displays the velocity
function(s) read from the file. You may need to go back and forth between these pages to ensure
that the file is being read correctly.

The options on this menu are:

Open ASCII File: When you press this button, a File Selection dialog appears, which allows
you to set the path and filename of the velocity function file.
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Display ASCII File: When you press this button, a window appears that displays the contents of
the ASCII file, allowing you to verify the number of header lines and the ordering of data
within the file.

Lines to skip: If your ASCII file contains a header section describing the file, this field should
contain the number of lines in the header. The program assumes that all lines following
the header will have the same structure and will contain valid data values.

Input File Name: After a file has been opened, this field displays the file name and path.

Location from file: If this toggle is on, then the location information for a control point will be
read from the file. Depending on the Location Type set on the Control Panel menu,
you will see one or two fields in the Data Column box. If you turn off the toggle, the
program will insert the control point at the origin of the survey, and it is your
responsibility to define the correct location on the Time Velocity Entry menu. Note
that the actual location is not significant, unless there are multiple control points.

ASCII Format: This item allows you to select one of three formats of the velocity function file:
Fixed Column, Free Column, or Free Row. Either of the columnar formats allows you
to read a file containing a column of time values and a column of velocities. If the
control point location information is also available in the file, then there can be more than
one control point defined in a single file. The difference between fixed and free formats
is that a free format file separates columns by delimiters (space, tab, or comma, for
example), while the fixed format looks in a precisely defined position for the column.

Fixed Column: You must specify the character position on a line for each of the
columns containing the location (Inline/Xline, CDP, or X/Y), the Time, and the
Velocity. Since columns are defined by the actual character position, two
numbers do not need to be separated, so long as each is within the range selected.

Free Column: You must specify the column position in a line for each of the columns
containing the location (Inline/Xline, CDP, or X/Y), the Time, and the Velocity.
In free format, one column is separated from another by one of the delimiters
shown.

Free Row: The row format requires that each control point be preceded by some
number of header lines, one of which contains the location information. To
ensure that the control points can be distinguished, the first header line for each
control point should have a common character string. The number of header lines
is set in the Control point header lines field, and the character string is specified
in the New control point string field. Define the location of the control point by
setting the line and column number where this information is located in the header
lines. A column for the location is any group of characters or digits separated by
space(s). Following these header lines, the time/velocity pairs are listed
sequentially over any number of data lines, each of which contains one or more
pairs.
Velocity menus
November 1999
Velocity Information/Well Log





The HRS Log Chooser menu can be displayed from any menu that requires a velocity function.
If a GEOVIEW database has been opened for the current program, this menu appears when you
click on the Open Well Log button.

The items on this menu are:

Database: This field shows the name of the current GEOVIEW database.

Well list: The box under this item shows all of the wells in the current GEOVIEW database that
match the well type defined on the pullDown menu button. By default, the Well list
contains all of the wells in the database, but you may want to see only those wells of a
specific type. To filter the list to show only gas wells, for example, set the pullDown to
GAS WELL.

Well information: When a well is selected in the Well list, descriptive information about that
well is shown in this box.

Log list: The box under this item shows all of the log curves in the selected well that match the
log type defined on the pullDown menu button. By default, the Log list contains all of
the P-wave sonic logs in the well.

Log information: When a log is selected in the Log list, descriptive information about that
curve is shown in this box.
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Velocity Information/Well Log/View Logs





The Log Display window shows the all of the logs contained in the well selected on the HRS
Log Chooser menu. To produce the Log Display, click on the View Logs button.

The horizontal menuBar of the Log Display window has these options:

File/Exit: Close the Log Display window.