- journal_title：The Leading Edge
- Contributor：Beatriz Quintal ; Marcel Frehner ; Claudio Madonna ; Nicola Tisato ; Maria Kuteynikova ; Erik H. Saenger
- Publisher：Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- Date：2011-
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.1190/1.3672480
- journal_abbrev：The Leading Edge
- issn：1070-485X
- volume：30
- issue：12
- firstpage：1360
- section：Special section: Physics of rocks
A good understanding of the effect of rock and pore-fluid properties on seismic waves is necessary for the characterization of a subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir from a seismic data set. Information about the rock and fluids in the reservoir can be obtained, for example, through well logging and laboratory tests with samples cored from the wellbore. Together with seismic data, this information can be extrapolated for the entire dimension of the reservoir to provide valuable quantitative estimates for production. Additionally, this information can be extrapolated in time for monitoring the spatial redistribution of fluids during production. Making such space and time extrapolations more accurate using seismic data is the main goal of rock physics. For that, identifying and understanding the physical processes taking place in a reservoir rock at different scales is an important step and the subject of our article.