Groupe des Ecoles des Mines - Geophysics Research Centre (GEOPHY)

The Geophysical Research Centre was created in 1993 on the basis of a theme focusing on oil applications in this field'a Research conducted at the Centre is therefore essentially oriented towards the digital modelling of the propagation of elastic waves and methods of seismic imaging of sedimentary structures. Applications, extending as far as life-scale demonstrations with real oil exploration data, make up the backbone of our work. Other applications of seismic and seismological methods are also implemented, similarly on the basis of real data, but on other scales (regional geophysical tomography, reservoir geophysics, "small-scale geophysics" applied to civil engineering).

Lines of research

 In-depth imaging on the basis of surface seismic data
 Estimation of the macro-model of seismic velocity
 Quantitative imaging of complex structures
 Exploitation of images and AVA
 VHR seismic imaging of the subsurface
 Vulcanism

Director: Pascal PODVIN

 Research academics: 6
 Other scientists: 1
 Doctoral students: 5