Catagories: A=Acquisition, P=Processing, I=Interpretation Timeline data courtesy of professor Christopher Liner Residual statics (P), Complex trace attributes (I), Impedance inversion (I) Common midpoint shooting(A) Synthetic seismogram (I) 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 Vibroseis (A) Marine airgun (A) Digital seismic processing (P) Digital migration (P) Seismic stratigraphy (I) 3-D shooting (A) Vertical seismic profile (A) Dip moveout (P), 2-D poststack depth migration (P) 2-D Prestack depth migration (P), Bright spot analysis (I), Workstations (I) 3-D migration velocity analysis, Slant stack (P) 3-D event autotracking (I) Reverse time migration (P) 2-D reflection tomography (P), Optimization (P) 3-D poststack depth migration (P), AVO analysis (I) 3-D reflection tomography (P), FX deconvolution (P), Prestack RTM (P), Ocean bottom cable (A), Crosswell (A) 3-D PreSDM (P), Neural networks (P), Horizon dip/azimuth attributes (I) Subsalt imaging (I) Vertical cable (A), Turning wave migration (P), Wavelet transforms (P) Seismic sequence stratigraphy (I) Routine anisotropic processing (P) 4-D seismic (A), Coherence (I), Fluid substitution (I), Wavelet transforms (I) Impedance optimization (I), Attribute classification (I) Spectral decomposition (I), Neural networks (I) Seismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing (A) Least squares migration(P), Rayleigh wave inversion (P), Elastic inversion (I) Overpressure from attributes (I) Multi-attribute transforms (I), MEMS accelerometer (A) Structure-oriented filtering (I), Geomechanics from seismic data (I) Horizontal crosswell tomography (A), Interferometry (P) Volumetric attributes (I), Spice attribute (I), Relative geologic time volume (I) Virtual source method (P) Wide-azimuth towed marine data (A), Commercial 3-D reverse time migration (P) Wireless land seismic (A), Vector acoustic measurements (A) Spectral inversion (I), Biot slow S-wave revived (I) Seismic Development — 1956-2008 Marine seismic Sequence stratigraphy Vertical seismic profile Vibroseis Subsalt imaging Wide-azimuth towed marine Western Geco Historical photo Schlumberger Western Geophysical BP Western Geco Schlumberger