Common midpoint shooting(A)

1956

Vibroseis
Synthetic seismogram (I)

Marine seismic
Vibroseis (A)

1960
Marine airgun (A)

1964
Historical photo

Schlumberger
Digital seismic processing (P)
Digital migration (P) Western Geco

1968

Vertical seismic profile

Seismic stratigraphy (I)
3-D shooting (A)

1972
Sequence stratigraphy

Vertical seismic profile (A)

1976

Dip moveout (P),

2-D poststack depth migration (P) Schlumberger
Residual statics (P), Complex trace attributes (I),
2-D Prestack depth migration (P), Impedance inversion (I)
1980

Bright spot analysis (I), Workstations (I)

3-D migration velocity analysis, Slant stack (P)
3-D event autotracking (I)
Reverse time migration (P)
2-D reflection tomography (P),
1984

Optimization (P)
3-D poststack depth migration (P),
3-D reflection tomography (P), AVO analysis (I)

Catagories: A=Acquisition, P=Processing, I=Interpretation

FX deconvolution (P), Prestack RTM (P),
Ocean bottom cable (A),
Crosswell (A)
Subsalt imaging

1988

3-D PreSDM (P), Neural networks (P),

Horizon dip/azimuth attributes (I)
Subsalt imaging (I)
Vertical cable (A), Turning wave migration (P),
Wavelet transforms (P) Western Geophysical
Seismic sequence stratigraphy (I)
1992

Routine anisotropic processing (P)

BP
4-D seismic (A), Coherence (I), Fluid substitution (I),
Impedance optimization (I), Wavelet transforms (I)
1996

Attribute classification (I)

Spectral decomposition (I), Neural networks (I)
Seismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing (A)
Least squares migration(P),
Rayleigh wave inversion (P),
Overpressure from attributes (I) Elastic inversion (I)
2000

Multi-attribute transforms (I),

Structure-oriented filtering (I), MEMS accelerometer (A)
Wide-azimuth towed marine

Geomechanics from seismic data (I)

Horizontal crosswell tomography (A),
Interferometry (P)
Volumetric attributes (I), Spice attribute (I),
2004

Relative geologic time volume (I)

Virtual source method (P)
Wide-azimuth towed marine data (A),
Wireless land seismic (A), Commercial 3-D reverse time
Vector acoustic measurements (A)
Seismic Development — 1956-2008

migration (P)
Spectral inversion (I),
Timeline data courtesy of professor Christopher Liner
2008

Biot slow S-wave revived (I) Western Geco