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Volume 33 Number 1
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

ABSTRACT

A simple field method was proposed by the author in 1976 for measuring the absolute amplitude of the pressure pulse radiated by marine seismic sources which radiate a bubble pulse. The proposed method involves the recording of the near‐field pressure signature radiated by the water gun using a wide‐band hydrophone. The key feature of the proposed method is that a knowledge of the hydrophone sensitivity and its distance from the water gun are not required.

It is shown that the absolute amplitudes of the pressure pulses radiated by the S80 and P400 water guns obtained using the proposed method are in agreement with those obtained using a Ref‐Tek hydrophone.

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