Reference Systems and Geographic Transformation for Oil & Gas Exploration
ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9
Authors
1Alvarez, G.
1YPF Email: gabriel.alvarez@ypf.com
Abstract
The oil companies’ need to accurately know the geodetic and coordinate projection systems used for their huge amount of digital data has never been so great. This is critical to the studies performed by geologists using specialty software. Advances in digital cartography, satellite positioning systems, and overall hardware and software have speeded up and facilitated graphical deployment of georeferenced data, map construction, and a myriad of additional applications such as topological, spatial, and tracking analyses, stereoscopic analysis of satellite images, selection of analogs, projections, transformations, geoprocessing, geological and geochemical modeling, seismic and geological interpretation, etc. As capture and management of data for hydrocarbon exploration improved, the complex geodetic issue—though apparently less important than geologic risk—was brought about.
Keywords
Geodetic system; Reference frame; WGS84