Patent ID: 11880008
Assignee: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. The tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable media of claim 15, comprising instructions that when executed cause the processor to:
determine whether an additional velocity perturbation is to be added to the current velocity model at a second location of the current velocity model;
add a second velocity perturbation to the current velocity model at the second location to generate a second perturbed velocity model when it is determined that the additional velocity perturbation is to be added to the current velocity model at the second location of the current velocity model;
generate a second image utilizing the second perturbed velocity model;
generate and assign a second measure of quality to the second image; and
determine whether the second measure of quality assigned to the second image is a second optimal measure of quality at the second location of the current velocity model that corresponds to the portion of the subsurface responsible for the distortion to the seismic image.