rectify image in 3D

Question

Hi.
I have been working with geophysical data for over two years now and my dream has always been to be able to rectify images of seismic lines vertically. Until now I haven't found a way to do this, but few months ago I saw this http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/photos/desktop94/picture11167.aspx and now I am very excited to know how to do this, because this is exactly what my dream is about.

Can anyone please tell me how to do this.

Regards.
Steinthor Traustason
Geographer
Mannvit engeneering
Iceland

inanulusoy · Answer

Hi Christian,

The way you've found is amazing. Just the way I've been looking for years. Done lot of work verry efficiently and fast.

Thanks..

inan

cbeaulieu29;89393 wrote:
Hi Steinthor,

I hope it's not too late, but I was looking at exactly the same functionality to insert seismic lines and geological cross-sections. In fact, it's not that complicated, just a bit messy to play with......................

ChristianBeaulieu · Answer

Can't agree more with you on this Jakub, editing in 3D with ArcScene is really painful. So little is missing to make it viable. Smoothing 3D polylines and a "polylines to surface tool" would also be very useful...

JakubSisak · Answer

...be able to rectify images of seismic lines vertically

This sort of work can be easily done in geological/mining software such as GEMS, Surpack by Gemcom. Not sure if Target for ArcGIS by Geosoft allows you to digitize vertically from a section but i suspect so. (Be prepared for an astronomical price tag, especially for Gemcom software.) GEMS also allows you to geo-reference and digitize on inclined sections.

I would love to have this functionality in ArcGIS and hoping someone will write an add-on for this soon. All the ingredients are there...