Patent Document ID: 8300498
Application ID: 12459329
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for transforming seismic data into noise-attenuated data, comprising: predicting multiple traces in seismic data representative of subsurface formations by the following: calculating dips for a series of sets of adjacent multiple contribution traces, from seismic data acquired by deploying a plurality of seismic sensors proximate an area of the earth's subsurface to be evaluated, the seismic sensors generating at least one of an electrical and optical signal in response to seismic energy, in the vicinity of a boundary of an aperture of a multiple contribution gather; recursively extending the boundary of the aperture of the multiple contribution gather, based on the calculated dips; and stacking multiple contribution traces in the multiple contribution gather with the extended aperture boundary to generate predicted multiple traces; and subtracting the predicted multiple traces from the seismic data to generate surface-related multiple attenuated data useful for imaging the subsurface formations.