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IMAGE 2026 — International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy
Joint annual meeting of SEG, AAPG, SEPM, and Geophysical Society of Houston. The largest applied-geoscience event in North America. EarthScan returns after IMAGE 2025.
Date
Location
George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, USA
EarthScan
Quamer Nasim, Tannistha Maiti, Tarry Singh
IMAGE 2026 returns to George R. Brown in Houston, 24-27 August. Four days, the four major North American applied-geoscience societies (SEG, AAPG, SEPM, Geophysical Society of Houston) under one roof. Expected ~6,500-7,000 attendees, ~700 technical sessions.
EarthScan plans for 2026
Building on the strong IMAGE 2025 outing:
- Booth presence — first time exhibiting at IMAGE. Live VeerNet demo + EAN-DDA results
- Three technical papers under review:
- VeerNet at multi-operator scale (M Quamer Nassim)
- EAN-DDA cross-basin behaviour study (Tannistha Maiti)
- "From research-prototype to operator-deployment": deployment notes from EarthScan's first three operator pilots (Tarry)
- Panel participation — Tannistha Maiti is on the SEG AI Committee panel discussing data-sharing standards for cross-basin foundation-model pretraining
Themes we expect
- Foundation models for seismic — Stanford / NTNU / KAUST research updates, plus operator-side pretraining results
- Data platform standardisation — OSDU adoption, lakehouse vs. warehouse for subsurface
- Energy transition geoscience — geothermal site characterisation, hydrogen storage geology, CCS monitoring
- Reservoir digital twins — operator-side maturity check-in
Why this is the year-defining event for EarthScan
IMAGE is the booth + technical-paper + customer-conversation venue we plan around. 2026 is the year EarthScan moves from "new face at IMAGE" to "expected face at IMAGE."
