Patent Document ID: 20100186950
Application ID: 12602413
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying geological features of a subsurface region from geophysical data gathered from the region, said method comprising: (a) selecting a curvelet transform and a corresponding basis set of elementary functions (“curvelet functions”), wherein the term curvelet transform also includes the contourlet and surfacelet transforms; (b) transforming the geophysical data into a curvelet representation of the data using the selected basis set and transform, wherein the geophysical data are represented as a series expansion of curvelet functions each multiplied by a corresponding expansion coefficient (“weight”); (c) computing the geophysical attributes dip, frequency and location of each curvelet function used in the curvelet representation of the geophysical data; and (d) identifying geologic features directly from the weights and computed geophysical attributes of the curvelet functions.