Study and Application of Seismic Attributes on Coal Seam Thickness Prediction

Abstract

Seismic wave contain more information about the sediments. The seismic attributes has some relationship with the coal seam thickness. Through analysis of the wedge-shaped coal seam’s seismic attributes, when the seam thickness is less than the tuning thickness, there is proportional relationship between the amplitude value and seam thickness; while the apparent time difference between the wave peak and trough is not sensitive. When the coal seam thickness is above the tuning thickness, the conclusion is opposite. As a result, it’s difficult to predict the coal seam thickness only by using one single attribute. Therefore, we use the nonlinear-regression method to analyze the relationship between the seam thickness and both attributes, and get a method to predict the coal seam thickness. With the method we predict the coal seam thickness in a coal mine and get a perfect result.