HorizonCube is a game-changing technology that impacts every level of seismic interpretation. A HorizonCube consists of a dense set of correlated 3D stratigraphic surfaces that are assigned a relative geological age.  The technology was initially developed for sequence stratigraphic interpretation and as such was part of the SSIS plugin where it was called chronostratigraphy. Because the technology has a much wider application range the HorizonCube became a separate plugin in v.4.2. Henceforth SSIS is an add-on to the HorizonCube that focuses on sequence stratigraphic interpretation and Wheeler transformations. Other applications of the HorizonCube are: 1) detailed geologic model building, 2) low frequency model building for seismic inversions and 3) well correlations.

In the HorizonCube we typically create hundreds of chrono-stratigraphic horizons per sequence. Each sequence is bounded by mapped top and bottom horizons. Chrono-stratigraphic horizonsare either modeled (stratal slicing (aka proportional slicing), parallel to upper - and parallel to lower horizon), or auto-tracked. The second generation 3D auto-tracker algorithm implemented in the HorizonCube tracks the dip/azimuth field to generate horizons that are typically separated by one sample at the starting position. Optionally the user can smooth the dip-field and thus reduce the impact of random noise. An advantage of dip-steered auto-tracking is that dip fields are more continuous than amplitude fields. This is as opposed to conventional autotrackers that pick amplitudes and which lead to a set of patchy horizons rather than a set of continuous, chronologically consistent horizons.