Summary Microseismic monitoring of reservoir processes is important for understanding hydraulic fracture geometry, estimating stimulated reservoir volume (SRV), and optimizing long-term field development. The analysis of data sets with many attributes, however, is still a challenging problem in the context of information and scientific visualization. We propose a new set of interactive visualization tools that combine existing and novel visualization techniques that we have developed. The main goal is to provide expert users with a more integrated visual analysis environment so they can interact, manipulate, explore and gain new insights concerning complex microseismic data. The proposed microseismic visual-analysis framework has two main components: (1) an interactive filtering view using synchronized parallel coordinates with 3D visualization, so that the user can easily focus his/her work on a desired subset of the microseismic events; (2) interactive selection of microseismic events for estimating the SRV, using sketch-based interaction and modeling techniques. These tools are deployed in both desktop and interactive multi-touch display technologies. Our proposed framework allows a more intuitive data manipulation and exploration, by assisting expert users in filtering/selecting/changing event attributes to guide the SRV estimation process.
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