Baziw Consulting Engineers Ltd.

Specializing in Seismic System Designs

SC3-RAV™




SC3-RAV™
is a comprehensive triaxial downhole seismic testing (DST) data reduction, analysis, and display software package. The user is provided with an extensive set of mathematical tools and patented (U.S. Patent #5,177,709 / Canadian Patent # 2,077,387) algorithms in deriving DST (e.g., seismic cone (SC)) interval velocities and attenuation Q values and quantifying vertical seismic profiling. In addition,
SC3-RAV™ has functionality for reviewing frequency spectrums, comparing unfiltered and digitally filtered traces and plotting interval velocity profiles. SC3-RAV™ also provides extensive chart editing, plotting, and exporting functionality. SC3-RAV™ includes the following features:


  • Configurable for either geophones or accelerometers.
  • Extensive frequency spectrum analysis. Bandpass, high pass, low pass, and notch digital filters.
  • Polarization analysis.
  • The ability to rotate the X, Y, and Z source wave responses onto a single full waveform axis.
  • The ability to rotate the X, Y, and Z responses onto the P-SV-SH raypath coordinates.
  • Seismic source wave incident angle estimation.
  • Attenuation Analysis.
  • Patented (i.e. U.S. Patent #5,177,709) P-Wave and S-wave velocity estimation algorithm.
  • Three independent velocity estimates for the X, Y, and Z components.
  • Velocity estimate for the full waveform (i.e.  ρ = √x2 + y2 + z2).
  •  Batch job processing.
  • Source wave arrival time estimation.
  • Linear least squares regression interval velocity estimation.
  • Reverse Polarity Technique.
  • Forward Modeling Downhill Simplex Method in estimating interval velocities.
  • Display of seismic depth profile with trend line specification.
  • Display of peak particle accelerations, velocities, and displacements.
  • Calculation of interval Gmax values.
  • The ability to carry out data interpolation to increase the time series resolution.
  • Post data stacking.
  • Application of a signal decay function to minimize the effect of source wave multiples.
  • Display of calculated interval velocities.

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