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Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2018
Applicant:

National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Llc, Albuquerque, NM (US);

Inventor:

Chester J. Weiss, Sandia Park, NM (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/23 (2020.01); G01V 99/00 (2009.01); G06F 111/10 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/23 (2020.01); G01V 99/005 (2013.01); G06F 2111/10 (2020.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method of preventing computationally explosive calculations. The method includes obtaining, by a processor of the computer, measured data of one of a physical process or a physical object; performing hierarchical numerical modeling of a physical process inclusive of an Earth model containing at least one of (a) infrastructure in the ground and (b) a formation feature in the ground, wherein predicted data is generated; comparing the measured data to the predicted data to calculate an estimated error; analyzing the estimated error via an inversion process to update the at least one of the Earth model and infrastructure model so as to reduce the estimated error and to determine a final composite Earth model of at least one of the infrastructure and the feature; and using the final composite Earth model to characterize at least one of the process and the physical object.


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