1 - What is SeisX or what is SeisWare?
SeisX is an Integrated Seismic Interpretation Package. SeisX contains routines to tie well logs, interpret 2D and 3D seismic, grid and contour data and prepare high quality hard copy displays. SeisX has captured more than eighty-five percent of the Calgary Seismic Interpretation workstation market. Most of the smaller outfits have moved over to Paradigm's SeisX. SeisX is marketed to the interpretative geophysicist. It excels in handling multiple vintages of 2D data and multiple overlapping 3D surveys. SeisX provides the following:SeisWare is an offshoot of SeisX when one of the key developers quit Paradigm. Within a year a PC version was born. Here are some of the advantages:
- High level program functionality
- Intuitive, efficient program design
- Low Cost
- Minimum Data Management Support required
- Ability to incorporate recommended enhancements
- Ability to fix documented bugs
- Seismic displayed at Map Scale
Here is an interesting document that compares SeisX vs. Landmark. The author is Russ Sagert, formerly Shell Canada's Landmark "expert". This objective letter compares the technical merit of both products. Where SeisX has lost is due to Landmark's successful marketing of their Vision "Let us us do everything for you"
- Fast local disk, three screens are great! No network bottlenecks
- Simple update installation
- Print Preview works, what you see is what you get
- Culture, Seismic, horizon picks can be edited in a spread sheet format
- Poor man's multi tasking, most windows are new jobs
- Raster images can be used as a back drop (great for Landsat images, aerial photos or scanned maps)
- Access data base used (you can even use Access to edit your data!)
- Support desk, both Ed and Murray are excellent
- Focused on the 80% solution, Seismic picking and mapping, AVO, modelling, are left to others.
- The original authors of the code are still there (ie the code can be fixed!)
PS- Russ tells me Landmark's lawyers threatened him with a lawsuit if he did not publically retract any untruths. I don't think there ever was a law suit!
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