All Stories

  1. The Unappreciated Importance of Refraction Echoes or Guided Waves in Causing Bad Land Seismic Data

    Article • First Break, January 2025, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  2. Refraction multiple attenuation by pattern-based machine learning with a case study

    Article • July 2024, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  3. Episode 224: The Physics Behind Land Seismic Noise (Christof Stork)

    Article • June 2024, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  4. Understanding Land Seismic Scattering Noise through Careful Simulation

    Article • First Break, January 2024, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  5. Analysing Acquisition and Processing Methods to Address Land Seismic Scattering Noise through Fine Scale Elastic Modelling

    Article • January 2024, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  6. The Unappreciated Importance of Refraction Multiples as Land Seismic Noise

    Article • January 2024, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  7. Recent advances, road ahead: Acquisition, processing, and interpretation improvements in using land seismic data for QI

    Article • December 2023, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  8. Using ‘Noise-Corrected OVT Fold’ to optimise land seismic acquisition risk, costs, and quality

    Article • First Break, January 2023, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  9. Land and OBN near surface seismic distortion is often more complicated than the standard SC-Decon model

    Article • January 2023, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  10. Using “Noise-Corrected OVT Fold” to Optimize Land Seismic Acquisition Risk, Costs, and Quality

    Article • January 2023, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  11. Basic Land Seismic Surface Correction Processing Steps have Artifacts that Corrupt Seismic Reservoir Characterization

    Article • January 2022, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  12. Evidence that land seismic surface scattering noise can be treated as correctable signal distortion

    Article • September 2021, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  13. Optimizing seismic land acquisition and processing for surface scattering noise

    Article • September 2021, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  14. A Model for Land Seismic Surface Scattering Noise has Implications for Acquisition and Processing

    Article • January 2021, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  15. Reducing land seismic scattering noise through surface effects deconvolution

    Article • January 2021, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  16. Key seismic processing steps to resolve amplitude characteristics of reservoir geobodies in the SEAM-Barrett model

    Article • September 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  17. How does the thin near surface of the earth produce 10–100 times more noise on land seismic data than on marine data?

    Article • First Break, August 2020, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  18. Global land seismic acquisition optimization by accounting for varying noise, obstacles, non-uniform placement costs, and signal

    Article • August 2019, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  19. Introduction to special section: Foothills exploration

    Article • Interpretation, November 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  20. We can and should be using more prestack attributes to characterize unconventional reservoirs: An example from the Permian Basin

    Article • August 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  21. Steps for Improving the Utility of Land Seismic Data for Unconventional Reservoirs

    Article • January 2018, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

    Dr Christof Stork

  22. Game changing seismic noise attenuation is possible with irregular acquisition

    Article • August 2017, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  23. Results from a large field test using 2D ring arrays to address backscattered surface noise in land seismic acquisition

    Article • September 2016, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  24. Using 2D Ring Arrays to Remove Back-scattered Surface Noise from Land Seismic Data

    Article • May 2016, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  25. Using 2D ring arrays to remove back-scattered surface noise from land seismic data

    Article • August 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  26. The decline of conventional seismic acquisition and the rise of specialized acquisition: This is compressive sensing

    Article • August 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  27. A practitioner's approach to full waveform inversion

    Article • August 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  28. Wave equation illumination using RTM

    Article • August 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  29. Illuminating imperfections of imaging inversion

    Article • August 2013, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  30. Eliminating Nearly All Dispersion Error from FD Modeling and RTM with Minimal Cost Increase

    Article • January 2013, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  31. 3D nonlinear stack enhancement: Correlation based stacking

    Article • September 2012, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  32. Interpretive Full Waveform Inversion using region constraints

    Article • September 2012, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  33. Testing Different 3D Acquisition Geometries for Reducing Back-scattered Surface Noise

    Article • June 2012, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  34. Seismic acquisition is moving from a “CMP Fold” perspective to a “Wavefield Recording” perspective which has significant implications on acquisition design

    Article • January 2011, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  35. RTM images from SEAM data show interesting features

    Article • January 2011, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  36. Signals

    Article • The Leading Edge, December 2010, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  37. CRS Workflow for Enhanced 3D Seismic Salt Imaging and Model Building

    Article • November 2009, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  38. Predicting subsalt dip‐dependent illumination variations using density bubbles with RTM migration

    Article • January 2009, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  39. Addressing key land data quality challenges with passive seismic interferometry

    Article • January 2009, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  40. Fixing the Non-Uniform Directionality Problem of Seismic Interferometry May Be Crucial to its Success

    Article • June 2007, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  41. Fixing the nonuniform directionality of seismic daylight interferometry may be crucial to its success

    Article • January 2007, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  42. Response to the reply

    Article • Geophysics, September 2006, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  43. Reply to the discussion

    Article • Geophysics, September 2006, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  44. On “Delayed-shot 3D depth migration” ()

    Article • Geophysics, September 2006, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  45. Benefits of Low Frequencies for Subsalt Imaging

    Article • June 2006, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  46. Solving Static Problems with Ultra-Low Frequency Data and Waveform Inversion

    Article • June 2006, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  47. Predicting and removing complex 3D surface multiples with WEM modeling—an alternative to 3D SRME for wide azimuth surveys?

    Article • January 2006, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  48. Signals

    Article • The Leading Edge, January 2006, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  49. Benefits of low frequencies for subsalt imaging

    Article • January 2005, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  50. How many P values do you want to migrate for delayed shot wave equation migration?

    Article • January 2004, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  51. Integrating complementary tools for improved depth imaging

    Article • January 2003, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  52. Comparison between angle and offset gathers from wave equation migration and Kirchhoff migration

    Article • January 2002, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  53. Near‐salt‐flank imaging with Kirchhoff and wavefield‐extrapolation migration

    Article • January 2002, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  54. Hardware and Software Issues for Making Large Clusters Effective in a Production Seismic Processing Environment

    Article • January 2001, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  55. Making prestack depth migration work despite the inherent‐errors in the velocity model building process

    Article • January 1997, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  56. Hybrid Born and Rytov inversion

    Article • January 1994, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  57. Demonstration of MVA tomography with controls and constraints for determining an accurate velocity model for prestack depth migration

    Article • January 1994, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  58. Staged hybrid genetic search for seismic data imaging

    Article • January 1994, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Christof Stork

  59. Hybrid Born and Rytov inversion for seismic applications

    Article • December 1993, SPIE

    Dr Christof Stork

  60. A Hybrid genetic algorithm/steepest ascent approach has success with difficult statics

    Article • June 1993, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  61. The Rytov approximation aids the resolution of the broad velocity components in non-linear waveform inversion

    Article • June 1993, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  62. Modification of conjugate gradient iteration for stable and reproducible inversions

    Article • January 1993, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  63. Singular value decomposition of the velocity‐reflector depth tradeoff, Part 1: Introduction using a two‐parameter model

    Article • Geophysics, July 1992, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  64. Singular value decomposition of the velocity‐reflector depth tradeoff, Part 2: High‐resolution analysis of a generic model

    Article • Geophysics, July 1992, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  65. Combining reflection tomography with migration velocity analysis

    Article • June 1992, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  66. The interactive setup, calculation & display of finite difference modelling on a workstation

    Article • June 1992, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  67. The non-uniqueness of migration velocities

    Article • June 1992, EAGE Publications

    Dr Christof Stork

  68. Reflection tomography in the postmigrated domain

    Article • Geophysics, May 1992, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  69. Using constraints to address the instabilities of automated prestack velocity analysis

    Article • Geophysics, March 1992, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  70. Hybrid genetic autostatics: New approach for large‐amplitude statics with noisy data

    Article • January 1992, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  71. Making depth migration work in complex structures

    Article • January 1992, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  72. Stable Determination of Internal Velocities in Complex Structure Using Tomographic Migration Velocity Analyses

    Article • January 1992, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Christof Stork

  73. Linear aspects of tomographic velocity analysis

    Article • Geophysics, April 1991, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  74. High‐resolution SVD analysis of the coupled velocity determination and reflector imaging problem

    Article • January 1991, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  75. Need for constraints in generalized prestack velocity analysis

    Article • January 1989, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  76. Analysis of issues in transmission tomography using ray trace tomography

    Article • January 1988, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  77. Application of tomography to two data sets containing lateral velocity variations

    Article • January 1987, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  78. Case study of traveltime tomography applied to data sets containing lateral velocity variations

    Article • January 1986, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  79. Analysis of the resolution between ambiguous velocity and reflector position for traveltime tomography

    Article • January 1986, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork

  80. Iterative tomographic and migration reconstruction of seismic images

    Article • January 1985, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Christof Stork