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

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