LYNX has acquired significant technical skill in the art of converting paper seismic sections and maps to digital formats. This service is required by researchers and explorationists who own paper copies of their data but do not have electronic versions available. Our services are frequently required due to problems with the original tapes (formatting errors, stiction, brittle tapes, incomplete tapes), and due to problems with poor archival procedures (tapes are often mislabeled, misplaced, or sent out-of-house and never accounted for). In most of these cases, the company has paper copies archived and available, but no field or stacked tapes. Occasionally, field tapes can be found but it may be less expensive and more expedient to simply digitize the paper copies, rather than attempt to read and process vintage tapes. In some cases, our clients have received paper sections of seismic lines shot in remote, immature basins. Resource departments in these developing nations may wish to expand foreign participation in bidding competitions and may give paper seismic sections to explorationists. LYNX can facilitate the analysis of the data by quickly reconstructing digital data from the paper sections, turning paper copies into SEG-Y format data that can be filtered, migrated, loaded to workstations, and tied to other data. The seismic paper sections are processed through LYNX proprietary algorithms which have been developed and improved over the past seven years, following the work procedure summarized below:
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