Low-powered autonomous underwater vehicles for large-scale ocean-bottom acquisition

Fabio Mancini; Henry Debens; Ben Hollings

doi:10.3997/1365-2397.2019037

ISSN: 0263-5046
E-ISSN: 1365-2397

Low-powered autonomous underwater vehicles for large-scale ocean-bottom acquisition
Authors Fabio Mancini¹, Henry Debens¹, Ben Hollings²
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Affiliations: ¹ Woodside Energy ² Blue Ocean Monitoring
Source: First Break, Volume 37, Issue 11, Nov 2019, p. 49 - 55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.2019037
- Published online: 01 Nov 2019

Abstract

In this paper we propose the use of autonomous underwater vehicles to enable faster and cheaper ocean bottom seismic acquisition. Our effort is focused on buoyancy-driven vehicles as this method of propulsion is extremely low-powered, enabling the units to have very long endurance and, therefore, making them suited to seismic acquisition on a large scale. We show that, for development-style surveys, these units can potentially double the acquisition efficiency. Furthermore, their ease of deployment makes them suited to acquisitions purposely designed for velocity estimation via full-waveform inversion, either on their own or in hybrid configuration with a streamer vessel.

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