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PSReducing Deforestation Impacts of 3-D Seismic in Tropical Ecuador Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery*

By

Mark Thurber1, David Westlund2, Fernando L. Benalcazar2, and Antonio Semanate1

 

Search and Discovery Article #80003 (2006)

Posted October 6, 2006

 

*Adapted from poster presentation at AAPG Annual Convention, Houston, Texas, April 9-12, 2006

 

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1Walsh Ecuador, La Floresta, Quito, Ecuador ([email protected])

2EnCana

 

Abstract 

Multiple seismic exploration programs have been conducted in the Ecuadorian Amazon since the 1970s without reusing previously cleared areas for heliports and camps, resulting in unnecessary cumulative deforestation impacts. Walsh Environmental Scientists and Engineers (WALSH) and EnCana have developed a remote sensing technique to eliminate these redundant impacts by accurately identifying historic heliports and camps in mature tropical rainforest for reuse in a 3D seismic exploration program.

 

 

Location map.

Landsat image, with faint rectangular areas, outlined by historic seismic lines, and areas of secondary forest, probable heliports of camps.