Software for analysing and quantifying geoscientific information
The dGB-GDI system is primarily intended for quantifying seismic interpretations in terms of geological and petrophysical probabilities.

Lateral prediction studies, seismic pattern analysis, feasibility studies and seismic sensitivity analysis can be performed using factual wells and/or stochastically simulated pseudo-wells. However, the software is so flexible that its use is not limited to seismic applications. Instead, dGB-GDI is a general-purpose system for quantitative interpretation that can be used for studies ranging from basin analysis to petrophysics and rock-physics analysis.

The concepts and ideas behind dGB-GDI originated from the Probe consortium (1992-1995) which was sponsored by a large group of international organisations (a.o. TNO Institute of Applied Geoscience, SINTEF, IBM Nederland NV, BEB Erdgas und Erdoel GmbH, Saudi Aramco and the European Union).

SINTEF designed and implemented the Neural Network and statistics part of the original Probe project.

For more information please contact Mats Stefan Carlin.


Published January 9, 2007


The image above shows seismic patterns around an interpreted event. The map was created by an unsupervised neural network that classified each seismic trace into one of 4 possible classes. This network and two supervised networks were developed by Sintef and are now part of the dGB-GDI software.