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Inova Gmbh

Alan Faichney

Keith Elder

Scott T Hoenmans

Andrew Bull

Richard Eperjesi

Martin Carroll Williams

Dennis R Pavel

Gregg S Hofland

Keith Graham Watt

Erik Hupkens

A method, apparatus and system for acquiring seismic data is disclosed that in one aspect receives a seismic signal detected by at least one sensor in response to a seismic energy signal generated by a source at a selected location at a data acquisition unit in data that is in data communication with the sensor, receives at least one parameter of the source and/or receiver at the data acquisition unit; and generates a data block at the data acquisition unit having data representative of the received seismic signal and a header that contains data representative of the at least one parameter of the source and/or receiver. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.

Apparatus and method for integrating survey parameters into a header

A method of analyzing seismic survey data in which a transfer function for a geological model is derived by ray tracing techniques applied to theoretical data and the transfer function is applied to actual survey data in order to calculate reflection points () and/or other attributes for each shot ()/receiver () pair. The number of ray tracing calculations which have to be performed in deriving the model transfer function can thus be controlled. A sufficiently accurate transfer function can be derived using theoretical data representing substantially fewer shot ()/receiver () pairs than are used in the traditional ray tracing solution applied directly to actual survey data. Attribute values for actual source ()/receiver () pairs are estimated by interpolating the transfer function data.

Seismic survey system

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alan Faichney