Patent ID: 8279707

Claim:
A method of aggregating geophysical data representing at least first and second overlapping geophysical spaces, the method being implemented via one or more computer processors operatively linked with a computer readable medium encoded with instructions executable by the processor, the method comprising: obtaining from a data storage system in communication with the computer processor a first set of geophysical data representing the first geophysical space, the first set of geophysical data having data values for parameters of a first parametric domain that characterize the first geophysical space, the first parametric domain being indexed by a first index that travels through the size of the first parametric domain; obtaining, from the storage system, a second set of geophysical data representing the second geophysical space, the second set of geophysical data having data values for parameters of a second parametric domain, the second parametric domain being indexed by a second index that travels through the size of the second parametric domain, the second set of geophysical data further being separate and discrete from the first set of geophysical data; transforming, via the executable instructions, the first set of geophysical data from the first parametric domain to a third parametric domain, the third domain being indexed by a third index that travels through the size of the third parametric domain, the third index of the third parametric domain being different from the first index of the first parametric domain and the second index of the second parametric domain; transforming, via the executable instructions, the second set of geophysical data from the second parametric domain to the third parametric domain; fusing, via the executable instructions, the first set of geophysical data with the second set of geophysical data in the third parametric domain to create a fused set of geophysical data that specifies data values for parameters of the third parametric domain for the third index of the third parametric domain, wherein for a given index value included in the third index of the third parametric the performance of the fusion of the first set of geophysical data with the second set of geophysical data comprises: (a) selecting one of (i) the data value specified by the first set of geophysical data for a first parameter in the third parametric domain at the given index value, or (ii) the data value specified by the second set of geophysical data for the first parameter at the given index value; and (b) including the selected data value in the fused set of geophysical data as the data value for the first parameter at the given index value; and transforming, via the executable instructions, the fused set of geophysical data from the third parametric domain to a fourth parametric domain, the fourth parametric domain being indexed by location.