Methodology of VSP data processing
Vertical seismic profiling is a powerful and widely implemented method of seismic exploration. It suggests a lot of opportunities for detailed reservoir study including velocities and anisotropy estimation, direct impulse shape registration, timedepth correlation, multi-wave analysis and imaging. These advantages of the VSP method are well known but often they become severely spoiled as a result of inappropriate processing techniques. In this paper we establish a number of general principles of VSP data processing and particularly for accurate wave field decomposition that ensures the high quality and reliability of acquired results of processing and interpretation. Examples of real VSP data processing are also presented to illustrate the application of the proposed techniques.
VSP data processing based on 1D-3D model of medium.
The conceptual VSP-oriented 1D-3D model is presented as convenient base of VSP processing and interpretation. The results of processing confirm the efficiency of technology in various applications.
The Inca Occupation of the South Coast of Peru
like the others, however; it forks into several nearly parallel ravines of which the largest are Huayuri, Rio Grande-Palpa, Ingenio (called Collao in ancient times), Nasca proper (the ancient Caxamarca), Taruga, and Poroma. Due to peculiarities of the local topography, the irrigated areas in Ica and the ravines of Nasca are located inland, at the foot of the mountains, rather than at the mouths of the rivers as is more usual in Peruvian coastal valleys. No sharp natural or cultural boundary separates the valley of Chincha from the valleys of Cafiete (ancient Huarco and Runahuana), Asia, and Mala, the next valleys going up the coast to the northwest. At the other end of the area we are considering, however, there is a sharp break; beyond Yauca the Andean foothills reach out to the sea, natural conditions are quite different, and there are important differences in the archaeological picture as well. The historical sources which mention the south coast are not particularly helpful, except in so far as they provide us with a few dates. To begin with, no chronicler gives an explicit account of the political organization of the south coast at the time it came into contact with the Incas. It can, perhaps, be inferred from Cabello Balboa's statements about common policy toward the Inca invaders that there was some sort of political connection between the valleys of Mala, Cafiete, and Chincha, but the connection need have been no more than a temporary military alliance. Cabello makes no mention at all of Pisco. The valleys of Ica, Nasca, and 125