Patent Document ID: 20110272161
Application ID: 12775226
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying geologic features in one or more discretized sets of geophysical data or data attribute representing a subsurface region, each such data set referred to as an “original data volume,” the method comprising: (a) selecting a data window shape and size; (b) for each original data volume, moving the window to a plurality of locations, and forming for each window location a data window vector whose components consist of voxel values from within that window; (c) performing a statistical analysis of the data window vectors, the statistical analysis being performed jointly in the case of a plurality of original data volumes; (d) using the statistical analysis to identify outliers or anomalies in the data; and (e) using the outliers or anomalies to predict geologic features of the subsurface region.