The main subjects :

Geo-information : Its nature and organization Introduction to remote sensing and geographic information systems. Data search and intelligence tools for Internet/Intranet sources. Image and map data queries.
Data processing, visualization and integration techniques Visualization and basic image understanding. Digital cartography. Processing data for structural and thematic interpretation. Multi-thematic integration (ex : geophysics, geology, ground maps and remote sensing).
 

Assessment of resources : Extraction of relevant information regarding resource parameters from integrated geo-data sets. Resource modeling and economic evaluation. Consistency and data reliability checking methods. Various examples related to oil & gas, minerals and water resources.
 

Oil development scenarios : The main course period is followed by a two day session on processing data and solving a practical cases in oil & gas resource evaluation. Students will be organized in project teams. Each student will be able to access a training version of a case history along teaching material in English stored on the course web site .