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Decentralized Blended Acquisition - Are Networks the Next Big Step in Seismic Data Collection?
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 75th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2013, Jun 2013, cp-348-00049
- ISBN: 978-90-73834-48-4
Abstract
Until today, seismic acquisition is carried out with a centralized architecture, the collected information being linear in the number of detectors (N). In the last decades N has been continuously increased, making seismic acquisition systems very complex. It is proposed to break this trend by abandoning the traditional centralized acquisition concept. Instead, it is proposed to concentrate future developments on the promises offered by the network architecture, showing a quadratic behavior in seismic information (N^2). By moving from a single complex, centralized system to a network of simple, decentralized subsystems, robotization becomes a very attractive proposition.