Patent ID: 9355494
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G01V,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method for incrementally updating a model of physical geological structures, the method comprising: modeling an initial set of horizons in a past depositional space, wherein the past depositional space represents locations where physical geological structures are computed to have been originally deposited in the past, wherein each horizon is computed to have been originally deposited at a substantially constant geological time in the past; receiving a selection of one or more seed points in the past depositional space that have values deviating from those along the same horizon; transforming the selected seed points, using a transformation, from the past depositional space to corresponding seed points in a present day geological space, wherein the present day geological space represents the present day locations of physical geological structures; automatically extracting a set of new seed points from the transformed seed points to generate a new horizon in the present day geological space; locally changing a transformation from the present day geological space to the past depositional space for the set of new seed points; and displaying the model comprising the initial set of reference horizons and the new horizon.