Application of Hough Transform in Fracture Lineament Extraction
Seehapol Utitsan, Sarawute Chantraprasert, Wisit Promrak · 2022
Summary We demonstrate the application of Hough transform as a tool to automatically detect and digitize fracture lineaments from seismic attribute map of a carbonate reservoir and outcrop photo in Thailand. The tool greatly improves the efficiency in identifying and characterizing fractures, which are critical for hydrocarbon exploration and production in tight reservoir. It can extract hundreds of fracture lineaments in a few seconds, while the manual picking would take at least a day to finish such task.