Patent ID: 7716251

Claim:
A method for storing information for one or more semantic objects derived from raw seismic data, the method comprising: receiving, from a memory, a semantic object extracted from said raw seismic data and classified to comprise said semantic object, said received semantic object having one or more attributes; generating, using a processor on a computer: a summary of attributes of said received semantic object by calculating one or more statistics of one or more of said one or more attributes of said received semantic object; a confidence level of said received semantic object that quantifies a degree of certainty that said received semantic object has been correctly classified and/or labeled; and a compact representation of raw seismic data of said received semantic object, said compact representation comprising a multiple segment polyline; generating indexing information for one or more of the summary of attributes and the compact representation of said received semantic object, wherein the generated indexing information for the compact representation of said received semantic object includes indexing information of end points and slopes of the multiple segment polyline; and storing the received semantic object along with its associated summary of attributes, confidence level, compact representation, and indexing information in a semantic object database associated with a database storing said raw seismic data.