Patent ID: 8259532

Claim:
A method for generating a synthetic seismogram, comprising: propagating a wavefront, using a microprocessor, from a seismic source through an overburden to an upper boundary of a reservoir using an adaptive wavefront construction modeling technique, thereby generating a first seismogram that corresponds to the wavefront; propagating the wavefront using the first seismogram and a finite difference modeling technique, wherein the wavefront is propagated from the upper boundary to a lower boundary of the reservoir and reflected back up to the upper boundary to generate a second seismogram that corresponds to the wavefront propagated using the first seismogram and the finite difference modeling technique; and using the second seismogram to propagate the wavefront from the upper boundary of the reservoir through the overburden to one or more seismic receiver locations, thereby generating a third seismogram that corresponds to the wavefront propagated using the second seismogram.