This book presents the signal processing and data mining challenges
encountered in drilling engineering, and describes the methods used to
overcome them. In drilling engineering, many signal processing
technologies are required to solve practical problems, such as downhole
information transmission, spatial attitude of drillstring, drillstring
dynamics, seismic activity while drilling, among others. This title
attempts to bridge the gap between the signal processing and data mining
and oil and gas drilling engineering communities. There is an urgent
need to summarize signal processing and data mining issues in drilling
engineering so that practitioners in these fields can understand each
other in order to enhance oil and gas drilling functions. In summary,
this book shows the importance of signal processing and data mining to
researchers and professional drilling engineers and open up a new area
of application for signal processing and data mining scientists.