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Product overview

VISTA desktop seismic data processing software provides data processing from early acquisition QC to final processing and interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic data acquired on land, offshore, or vertical seismic profile (VSP) in all industry and manufacturer data formats.

With VISTA software, you can easily navigate workflows, and seamlessly evaluate datasets using numerous interactive and interlinked displays. You can also add in your own algorithms through a C++, Python, or MATLAB SDK interface. The software supports advanced processing capabilities, including AVO and AVA analysis, multicomponent processing, and complete 2D and 3D VSP QC and processing.

VISTA software is available in four modules: VISTA Field QC,  VISTA Field Processing,  VISTA Full Processing, and VISTA VSP.

• VISTA Field QC is used in the field to perform rapid QC and simple processing through to brute stack.
• VISTA Field Pro package provides additional tools for more sophisticated QC requirements, including post-stack migration.
• VISTA Full Pro offers a complete QC and processing solution with all the field capabilities and it includes post-stack line-tie and data merge, pre-stack migration, and time and depth image analysis.
• VISTA VSP can be used for complete VSP QC and processing.
  • Available as an add-on or as a 2D VSP standalone or 3D VSP standalone license.
  • The 3D VSP standalone option includes functionality appropriate for 2D and 3D VSP QC and processing.

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Release updates

• New styling functionality within the flow window to provide helpful information when creating multi-threaded flows, using trace by trace or ensemble multi-threading. 
  • new icon enables/disables the flow connection display mode 
  • display links between flow commands in different colors and different line styles to signify status and purpose  
  • Flow command titles include a background color to signify status and purpose 
• Improved Vista software program logging to store more logs and provides numerous log levels 
• Added history for files created in interactive windows
• Vista software can read SPS files containing comment lines
• Customized SPS dialog for header and VSP geometry windows

• New flow commands
  
  • extracts shot records from continuous data records using shot start times from the input text file
  • converts strain or strain rate DAS data to particle velocity data
  • calculates complex AVO product indicators

• Flow command enhancements include:
  
  • MtStart and MtEnStart
    
    • Increased maximum number of threads 
    • Added a warning if number of threads exceeds physical processor count
  • Output
    
    • Use flow variable strings in output directory name
    • Automatically creates output dictionary if none found
    • New option to set user defined parameters for graph display
    • Improved dialog
  • SEGDOut
    
    • Output SEG-D revisions 2.0, 2.1 or 3.0
    • EG-D revision 3—save shot point/line numbers to trace header extensions if general block is not available
    •  Input SEG-D->Output SEG-D with field file identification (FFID)   change
  • SEGDOut, SEGYOut, LDFOut
    
    • Ability to incorporate input SEGD, or SEGY or LDF file names into output SEGD
  •  SegdDisk
    
    • SEG-D revisions: 3.0, 3.1—examine and save to executions log general header blocks, and trace header extensions to help create custom dictionaries
    • SEG-D Revisions: 3.0, 3.1—new options to extract information from trace header extensions and save to Vista software headers
    • Option to skip logging info for each individual file
    • Prevent crashing if flow or disk file were moved
  •  Stitch
    
    • Added option to stitch by records
  •  Tau-P
    
    • Create output in F-P (frequency-slowness) domain
    • Handles original/interpolated traces if input is not regular
  •  Cadzow
    
    • Applies pre-Cadzow taper
  •  Linear moveout (LMO  ) application command
    
    • Automatically use depth receiver rather than offset for VSP data
  •  SeisWin command
    
    • Added a new option to set custom graph parameters to open data in graph window display
      

    Interactive windows 

  •  2D land geometry
    
    • 2D land geometry now allows users to manually define geometry and includes an option to create a gap pattern
    • Improved patch spreadsheet editing 
  • VSP model build
    
    • Includes reflection and joint tomography
    • Output tomography/inversion execution log as a text file
    • Apply multi-threading in 3D raytracing
    • Allows users to import horizons with datum, different from the VSP model
    • Apply dip to numerous, selected layers 
  •  Wavelet create
    
    • Create wavelet in equation tab, and in frequency domain, and save to time domain
    • New option in the file input tab to input file, and set time, or frequency domain
    • Added a reset button under the operations tab
    • Added dialog controls
  • Pre-stack time migration (PSTM  )/stack velocity analysis
    
    • Improved disconnections
    • Corrected crashes and incorrect displays
  • Data matching analysis
    
    • Select a portion of data to match by setting start trace numbers
    • Apply parameters on whole dataset to output
    • Display master data inside slave
  •  3D bin grid
    
    • Prevent grid auto-calculation when creating grid without seismic
    • Apply inline/xline offset to origin
  •  Refraction statics window
    
    • Improved short-wavelength statics calculation
    • Improved up hole times calculation 
  • Attribute window
    
    • Improved station prediction tools
  • F-K analysis
    
    • Save sort definition to FK multi-filter file to apply in different domains (previously shot only)
  •  3D merge window
    
    • Improved active grid management
    • Improved time slice toggle
    • Added hotkeys
  • Wavana editor
    
    • Improved auto edit options
  •  Horizon velocity interpolate
    
    • Interpolate/fill file created in Vista IVA   with empty velocity control points
    • Replaced slow 3D interpolation of horizons values with inline/crossline interpolation
  •  Seismic window display/seismic analysis
    
    • Spectral decomposition of the traces in the analysis window 
  • Graph window display
    
    • Save graph parameters to project defaults via the right-mouse button (RMB)   menu
    • Improved trace display with high number of samples
    • Toggle multi-color display
  • Header edit window
    
    • Improved the options of header items graph/plot/X-plot
  • VSP profile
    
    • Decimate S-FBP points to match live P points if P and S VSP levels differ
    • Added a refresh button
  •  Project data list/add single/multiple disk files
    
    • Added the ability to examine and display in the dialog general header blocks and trace header extensions to help create custom dictionaries for SEG-D revisions 3.0, and 3.1

•  Added more process default variable strings
• Added keyboard shortcuts to the main flow design window to cut, copy and paste selected flow commands or notes
• Added keyboard short cuts to undo and redo in the main flow design window
• Improved SEG-D dictionaries
• Improved batch flow window
  
  • Separated flow path and flow file name columns for better visibility  
  • Jobs in queue will begin executing after aborting batch jobs, previously this did not happen
  • Stability improvements:
    
    • Added measures to circumvent crashes when these are added to batch while batch flows are running  
    • Spreadsheet updates when batch flows error 
    • Fixed the issues that occurred when removing/reordering batch flows while executing 

• Improved batch flow execution
  
  • Handles minor communication interruptions
  • When communication is lost, the main Vista software instance waits until the process ends before launching another batch process
  • Added reporting and notifications
  • Numerous stability improvements 
    
    • Fixed errors with paused and running flows
    • Fixed issue with remote flows not recognized as complete
    • Fixed crashes for aborted flows with out-of-date status in spreadsheet
    • Fixed numerous input/output (I/O  ) problems
    • Improved numerous error detection and reporting issues
    • Fixed execution issues

• Improved batch server program
  
  • Improved program logging
  • Added automatic window resizing of internal monitor window

• Improved flow execution
  
  • Added information to flow execution log
  • Stability improvements
    
    • Fixed slowly executing flow commands in multi-threaded/multi-process environments 
    • Progress bar tick counting fixes
    • Fixed multiple string replacements for some flow key words

• Legacy interactive velocity analysis (IVA)  option
  
  • Fixed on-screen normal moveout (NMO) application issue
  • Vista software displays only moveouts in dialogs for pre-computed (not on the fly) velocity analysis
  • Fixed issue with absent pre-computed constant velocity stack (CVS)
  • Does not open if pre-computed semblance or gathers are missing
  • Disable on-the-fly options for pre-computed analysis

• Interactive velocity analysis 
  
  • Fixed an issue where velocity functions allowed user to add out of range picks 
  • Stability improvements include:
    
    • Fixed crash if user deletes one by one all defined mutes, in the mute options dialog 
    • Corridor stack panel change display parameters problem (read headers) fixed 
    • Fixed bug when removing multiple control points. 
    • Updating control points when defining polygon region in QC   velocity map now deactivates that tool (previously toolbar became inaccessible).  
    • Fixed crash that could occur if out of range picks are present and moveout method is set to anisotropic finite difference.
    • Velocity/eta functions dialog:

• Force picks allows one pick for a given time.
• Force picks removes any existing picks within the manual minimum time picking gap (to ensure the gap is enforced).
• Added option to remove existing pick above/below top/bottom pick to force picks
• Mass change picks (top/bottom) was removing an extra pick in error in some circumstances.
• Added keyboard shortcuts for use in edit controls everywhere in Vista software (CNTRL+X, CNTRL+C, CNTRL+V)
• Automatically resizing child windows when resizing main Vista software window
• Disallow windows to close while still in use
• Fixed write corruption issues when writing text files

Users

Geophysicists involved in field QC and processing of 2D and 3D seismic data acquired on land, offshore, or through VSP