Data Study Group Final Report: British Geological Survey – Detecting Shallow Gas from Marine Seismic Images.

Abstract

This data study group challenge focused on extracting information from legacy offshore seismic data. The British Geological Survey has an archive of thousands of images of scanned paper records that contain information about the marine subsurface, but these images are time-consuming to investigate manually. This challenge aimed to investigate methods to automatically extract information from these images, particularly identifying the presence of shallow gas below the seabed using patterns in the images. Shallow gas is a hazard that can threaten undersea cables, pipelines, and create problems for siting wind turbines. Knowing the location of hazardous gas will help to de-risk the installation of wind farms, a crucial infrastructure to achieve NetZero.

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