Patent ID: 7355923

Claim:
A method for analyzing seismic data from a formation, the method comprising: receiving pre-stack seismic data, wherein the pre-stack seismic data includes a plurality of pre-stack seismic traces; imaging the pre-stack seismic data to produce pre-stack depth-imaged seismic data; organizing the pre-stack depth-imaged seismic data into organized pre-stack depth-imaged seismic data that substantially preserve aspects of relative subsurface dip angle; determining one or more anisotropic parameters based on the organized pre-stack depth-imaged seismic data, wherein said determining is performed in the depth domain; applying the determined one or more anisotropic parameters to at least a subset of the pre-stack depth-imaged seismic data, wherein said applying produces corrected seismic data; and storing the corrected seismic data on a computer-readable memory medium, wherein the corrected seismic data are usable in analyzing the formation.