ABI40 OBI40 Image Data Processing
IODP-MSP drilling and logging contractor: ESO
Hole: M0004B
Expedition: 302
Location: Lomonosov Ridge (
Latitude: 87° 52.018' N
Longitude: 136° 10.475' E
Logging date: September 4, 2004
Sea floor depth (driller's): 1289.70 mbrf
Sea floor depth (logger's): 1291.00 mbrf
Total penetration: 218.00 mbsf
Total core recovered: 7.31 m (66.50 % of cored section)
Oldest sediment recovered: Middle Eocene
Lithologies: Clays to silty muds
ABI40 Middle-Lower Sections: 57.16 - 97.54 mbsf
OBI40 Lower Section: 74.47 -97.07 mbsf
The OBI40 and ABI40 acquired optical and acoustic images respectively at millimetre scale resolution. The optical images provide continuous and color-calibrated images of the borehole wall with a pixel size of less than 1 mm horizontally by 2 mm vertically. The acoustic images show the acoustic hardness of the lithologies within the coral reef sequence with a pixel size of 1.1 mm horizontally by 4 mm vertically.
The images are displayed as an unwrapped borehole cylinder and are provided in .BMP and .PDF format. A dipping plane in the borehole will appear as a sinusoid on the image with the amplitude of this sinusoid proportional to the dip of the plane. The images are oriented with respect to north, hence the strike of dipping features can also be determined. Additional processing on the accelerometer data of the image tools by a double integration of the acceleration allowed, whenever needed, a detailed repositioning of the recorded image data to its correct position with respect to the seafloor.
The ABI40 images of the borehole wall are unaffected by borehole fluid quality; on the other hand, in regions where the borehole fluid was cloudy OBI40 images are of lower quality with a blurred appearance.
Optical and acoustic images in borehole M0005D are of high quality, with the exception of the top section of the lower logged interval where optical images were slightly affected by cloudy borehole fluid. Optical images could not be recorded in the middle section of the borehole due to difficulties entering the open borehole.
Additional information about the drilling and logging operations can be found in the Operations section of the Site Chapter in IODP Proceedings of Expedition 310.
For further questions about the data, please contact:
Jennifer Inwood
Phone: 011-44-116-252-3327
Fax: 011-44--116-252-3918
E-mail: iodp@le.ac.uk