Botoseis: A New Seismic Unix Based Interactive Platform For Seismic Data Processing

Abstract

After eight years of the first distribution of the user’s manual of the Seismic Unix (SU) package, it is yet a challenge to execute some seismic processing SU scripts, especially for inexperienced users. Up to now there are few possibilities to have friendly user graphical interface for the Seismic Unix (SU) package, namely Tksu, iSU and GeBR. In order to obtain a more robust and flexible way to work with the SU package, we present a new graphical user interface, called BotoSeis, written in the Java programming language, which can be used under any operational system that have support for Java. It is adequate to be used both as a production or as an interactive development environment, by creating and managing projects, lines and flowcharts of seismic data processing. It is also possible to add SU programs, interactively, without knowledge about any programming language. The BotoSeis platform is structured by modules, which can be a single application or a combination of SU programs to produce a more complex result, e.g., the special modules called iView and iVelan. The former is a GUI developed for data visualization, and the later is an important interactive tool for velocity analysis, fitted for production and educational environments.