Data processing: structural design – modeling – simulation – and em – Electrical analog simulator – Of physical phenomenon
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-10
2006-01-10
Homere, Jean R. (Department: 2128)
Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and em
Electrical analog simulator
Of physical phenomenon
C703S001000, C703S002000, C703S006000, C703S010000, C702S016000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06985838
ABSTRACT:
The invention comprises a method for processing seismic data to generate data related to the location of thin beds in the earth's subsurface. Seismic data windows are defined extending over selected portions of a group of spatially related seismic data traces. Frequency spectra of successively selected windows of the seismic data are generated by applying a transform having poles on the unit z-circle, where z is the z-transform, to the data windows; and the frequency spectra are utilized to generate data related to the location of thin beds in the earth's subsurface.
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