Patent ID: 8234073

Claim:
A computer implemented method of estimating geological architecture of a geologic volume of interest with a computing system that includes one or more electronic processors configured to execute one or more computer program modules, the method comprising; obtaining on one or more electronic storage media accessible to the computing system a plurality of numerical analogs for a geologic volume of interest, wherein a numerical analog for the geologic volume of interest represents a plurality of characteristics of the geologic volume of interest as a function of position within geologic volume of interest; executing, on the one or more processors of the computing system, one or more computer program modules configured to identify interdependencies between the plurality of characteristics of the geologic volume of interest that are represented within the numerical analogs as a function of position within the geologic volume of interest; and executing, on the one or more processors of the computing system, one or more computer program modules configured to assign probabilities of correspondence between individual ones of the numerical analogs and the geologic volume of interest, wherein the probability of correspondence between a given one of the numerical analogs and the geologic volume of interest is assigned based on the distributions of the plurality of characteristics represented in the given numerical analog as a function of position within the geologic volume of interest and the determined interdependencies between the plurality of characteristics.