BHP Seismic UNIX

BHP_SU consists of two main areas:

1) SU tools to create and read randomly-accessible SU data in different formats, e.g. seismic, horizons, models

2) SU tools to extend BHP’s Quantitative Interpretation capability.

BHP_SU is an extension of Seismic UNIX, and all the same rules apply for building BHP_SU commands and scripts as for SU.

Special file formats and random-access make it possible to rapidly examine large volumes of data. The speed at which data can be viewed is virtually independent of file size, unlike most other processing or interpretation products.

Seismic UNIX trace headers are used to store “decision-variables”, which can then be used to view data in non-standard ways.