The Autonomous Midwater Stationary Cable (Freecable): A Totally Flexible Acquisition Technology

Haumonté et al. (2016a) recently introduced a new marine seismic acquisition method named midwater stationary cable (MSC). This technique uses recording autonomous vessels (RAV) to command and control independent seismic four-component cables. It is demonstrated in this paper that the high number of degrees of freedom of the FreeCable system enables to record full-azimuth, full-offset, low-noise and full-band data which materializes in geophysical advantages and productivity gains.