Triton SB-Interpreter™ is now available as a module embedded within Perspective and is included in the Perspective-SB product package for the processing and interpretation of shallow high resolution seismic data. Triton SB-Interpreter™ offers a powerful set of tools for enhancing imagery, digitizing reflectors, and exporting results that can be used in reports and other seismic interpretation packages. SB-Interpreter™ is very easy to set up and operate and is the ideal tool for quickly analyzing sub-bottom engineering data (e.g., site surveys, pipeline and cable routes and buried pipe locations) as well as investigating shallow geologic hazards or looking for gas expulsions.

Currently SB-Interpreter™ is offered as a stand-alone application and also embedded within Triton Perspective. Both implementations have the same processing tools and can display borehole data (lithogy, XDP data, etc.) overlain on the seismic profiles. The main advantage to the new Perspective integration is the fusion with bathymetry and sidescan processing all in one GIS-based application.

Presented below are some of the tools available in
SB-Interpreter™:

Profile View

This is the primary display of the subbottom profile data which allows the user to review the trace data and digitize reflectors. Several filters can be applied to the data including: bandpass, stack, AGC, and TVG. Other display options include cross line indicators, image reversal, slope and distance measurements, pan and zoom, and cursor tracking with the map display.

Reflector Digitizing

The bottom track can be used for automatically defining the seabed reflector. Included in the bottom tracking routine is a swell filter to remove vessel heave from the profile display. Additional reflectors can be drawn using the reflector digitizing and editing tools. Reflector exports include XYZ of the reflector nodes or thicknesses between layers, and can include original SEGY trace header information.

Borehole/Point Features

Subsurface information such as borehole lithology or down-hole geophysical measurements can be imported into Perspective as 'Feature' files. The position of the subsurface information is displayed in the map view, with the ability to project the subsurface information onto a subbottom profile within a user-defined distance from the borehole. Subsurface information is diplayed by applying a color map for each unique sample type found in the imported files.