Patent ID: 6904368

Claim:
A carrier medium that stores program instructions for analyzing seismic data from a formation, wherein the program instructions are executable by one or more processors to perform: receiving seismic data, wherein the seismic data comprise a plurality of traces, and wherein the seismic data comprise pre-stack seismic data; imaging the seismic data to produce pre-stack imaged seismic data; organizing the pre-stack imaged seismic data into organized pre-stack imaged seismic data that substantially preserve aspects of relative subsurface seismic propagation angle; determining one or more anisotropic parameters based on the organized pre-stack imaged seismic data; and applying the determined one or more anisotropic parameters to at least a subset of the pre-stack imaged seismic data, wherein said applying produces corrected seismic data; wherein the corrected seismic data are usable in analyzing the formation.