Supported Functionality

Technology	OpendTect Suite of Software Products							Info
	OpendTect	OpendTect Pro	Geoscience Bundle	Sequence Stratigraphy Bundle	Attributes & Filters Bundle	Inversion & Rock Physics Bundle	Other Plugins

Data IO
SEG-Y, LAS, ASCII	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		SEG-Y manipulator to edit non-standard SEG-Y
Use SEG-Y "as is"	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		No data duplication
Batch Well and LAS import/export	✖	✔	✔	✔	✖	✔		Simple Multi-well and bulk import
Access to Petrel*	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Direct link or copy data both ways
Access to SeisWorks	✖	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔		Copy data both ways
Export to GIS applications	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	GeotiffExport, free plugin by Wayne Mogg
Viewers
2D Viewers	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Wiggle + variable density
3D Viewers	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Multiple scenes in different domains (time, depth, ...)
Pre-stack viewers	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		In 3D scene and flat viewers
Stereo viewing	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Red-Cyan or Quad Buffer
Volume rendering	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Interactive opacity editing
RGB(A) blending	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Volumes, horizons, sections
Logplots	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Basic log viewer (and Bokeh log plot with Pro License)
Cross-plot	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Multi-dimensional cross-plot tool (and Bokeh log crossplot with Pro license)
Rose diagrams	✖	✖	✔	✖	✔	✖		Faults & Fractures
Auto Tracking (2D, 3D, faults, objects, ...)
3D Horizon tracker	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Amplitude & Similarity (dip guided using Dip Steering plugin)
2D Horizon tracker	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Amplitude & Similarity (dip guided using Dip Steering plugin)
3D Horizon Unconformity tracker & Inversion+ tracker	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Inversion-based flattening & combined with similarity tracking (Inversion+)
Seismic facies tracker	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Thalweg tracker
3D Object tracker	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Voxel Connectivity Filter
Attributes & Filters(open source)
Interactive multi-volume attribute analysis	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		On-the-fly parameter testing
"Standard" attributes and filters	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	Energy, Similarity, Instantaneous Attributes, Sweetness, … + plugins by Wayne Mogg
Texture attributes	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		GLCM based texture attributes for geo-morphologies
Spectral Decomposition	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Short window FFT, CWT, EMD, EEMD and CEEMD
Mathematics & Logics	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Functions, operations, "IF... THEN... ELSE..." etc.
Attributes from attributes	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Create your own attributes by chaining attributes
4D Volume alignment	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Match delta and Delta resample attributes
Pattern recognition	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Fingerprint attribute
AVO and AVA attributes	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	Intercept, Gradient and derivatives + AVOAtrrib plugin by Wayne Mogg
Ridge filters	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Ridge enhancement filter
Post-stack "broadband"	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔	Frequency Shaping + PostDeGhost
Wavelet shaping	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Colop, free plugin by Peter Zahuczki
General Computing
Distributed computing & parallelization	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		For batch processing and fast on-the-fly computation
Utilities
Sharing 3D PDF images	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Grabs a 3D scene and saves it in pdf format
Creating PowerPoint presentations	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Python PowerPoint Presentation Maker
Python R&D environment	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Machine Learning
2D seismic Mistie correction	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	Mistie, free plugin by Wayne Mogg
Wells and Modeling
Stratigraphic model	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Optional model ties stratigraphy to markers + horizons
Wells, markers, logs	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		IO and basic editing
Synthetic-to-seismic well tie	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Supports stretch & squeeze
Wavelet estimation	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Stochastic & deterministic; Synthetic wavelets
Pre-stack synthetics	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✔		Zoeppritz solution through "flat-earth": P, S, and multiples
Cross-sections, wedge models, volume synthetics	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✔		SynthRock plugin; Gassmann fluid replacement
Stochastic pseudo-well modeling	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✔		SynthRock plugin
Well Log Correlation	✖	✖	✔	✔	✖	✖		Well Correlation Panel to QC and edit markers
Rock Physics Library	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Compute new logs using "standard" or private equations
Machine Learning log-log prediction	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Ensemble, SVM, CNN, …
General Interpretation
Velocity Model Buliding	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		3D model builder and velocity conversion tools
Time Depth Conversion	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Two-way on-the-fly conversion
Stratigraphic flattening	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Flattens a 3D scene on a given horizon
Manual interpretation	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Points, bodies, polygons, fault sticks, fault planes, ...
Mapping, gridding, contouring
Gridding, contouring	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	Inverse distance, curvature, triangulation + free plugins by Wayne Mogg
Dip-steered gridding	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Inverse distance interpolation along seismic dip
Basemap + mapping	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		Improves OpendTect's user interaction
Seismic Sequence Stratigraphic functionality
2D/3D Global Interpretation	✖	✖	✔	✔	✖	✔		2D and 3D HorizonCube
2D/3D Wheeler transformation	✖	✖	✔	✔	✖	✖		Flattening of seismic using HorizonCube events
2D/3D systems tracts interpretation	✖	✖	✔	✔	✖	✖		SSIS plugin
3D Body Extraction	✖	✖	✔	✔	✖	✔		Extract 3D bodies from horizon geometries and attributes
Depositional Attributes	✖	✖	✔	✔	✖	✔		HorizonCube density and thickness attributes
Multi-horizon visualization & manipulation	✖	✖	✔	✔	✖	✔		2D and 3D HorizonCube sliders
Attributes & Filters (commercial)
Structurally Oriented Filters	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Dip-Steered Median Filter, Fault Enhancement Filter, ...
Resolution enhancement filters	✖	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔		Spectral Blueing
Fault Attributes	✖	✖	✔	✖	✔	✖		Thinned Fault Likelihood, Dip-Steered Similarity, …
Fracture Attributes	✖	✖	✔	✖	✔	✖	✔	Curvature attributes, fracture density, fracture proximity + FracTex
Stratigraphic Attributes	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Dip-steered attributes: texture, volume statistics, ...
Hydrocarbon Anomaly Enhancement	✖	✖	✔	✖	✔	✔		Fluid Contact Finder, Seismic Feature Enhancement*
Footprint removal	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔	MGS-Destriping
Machine Learning regression	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Image-to-image via CNN, Unet, …
Machine Learning object detection	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Chimneys, Faults, Salt, Facies, … via MLP, CNN, …
Machine Learning segmentation	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		3D seismic facies via UVQ
Machine Learning waveform segmentation	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Horizon-based seismic facies maps via UVQ
Quantitative Interpretation functionality
Coloured Inversion - AI, EI, EEI	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔		Seismic Coloured Inversion
Net Pay Prediction	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔		Seismic Net Pay
Seismic consistent Low Frequency Model Building	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✔		HorizonCube guided low frequency model
Deterministic Inversion AI, EI, EEI	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔	✔	Deterministic Inversion + Bayesian Linear Inversion (also for EI and EEI)
Stochastic Inversion AI, EI, EEI	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔		Multi-Point Stochastic Inversion
HitCube inversion	✖	✖	✔	✖	✖	✔		SynthRock matching stochastic synthetics + real seismic
Machine Learning Inversion	✖	✖	✔	✔	✔	✔		Rock property prediction via MLP, CNN, Ensemble, ...
Bayesian Inversion	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	Predicts rock properties from Probability Density Functions + Bayesian Linear Inversion
Potential Field Modelling	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖	✔	Xfield

Supported Functionality

Technology

OpendTect Suite of Software Products

Info

OpendTect

OpendTect Pro

Geoscience Bundle

Sequence Stratigraphy Bundle

Attributes & Filters Bundle

Inversion & Rock Physics Bundle

Other Plugins

Data IO

Viewers

Auto Tracking (2D, 3D, faults, objects, ...)

Attributes & Filters(open source)

General Computing

Utilities

Wells and Modeling

General Interpretation

Mapping, gridding, contouring

Seismic Sequence Stratigraphic functionality

Attributes & Filters (commercial)

Quantitative Interpretation functionality