Study on Identification of Oil/Gas and Water Zones in Geological Logging Base on Support-Vector Machine

Support Vector Machines (SVM) represents a new and very promising approach to pattern recognition based on small dataset. The approach is systematic and properly motivated by Statistical Learning Theory (SLT). Training involves separating the classes with a surface that maximizes the margin between them. An interesting property of this approach is that it is an approximate implementation of Structural Risk Minimization (SRM) induction principle, therefore, SVM is more generalized performance and accurate as compared to artificial neural network which embodies the Embodies Risk Minimization (ERM) principle.