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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2018
Applicant:
Ion Geophysical Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Timothy A. Dudley, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
ION Geophysical Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63B 21/62 (2006.01); B63B 21/08 (2006.01); B63B 21/16 (2006.01); G01V 1/38 (2006.01); B63H 25/04 (2006.01); G01V 1/16 (2006.01); G01V 1/18 (2006.01); B63B 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B63B 21/62 (2013.01); B63B 21/08 (2013.01); B63B 21/16 (2013.01); B63H 25/04 (2013.01); G01V 1/168 (2013.01); G01V 1/186 (2013.01); G01V 1/3808 (2013.01); G01V 1/3843 (2013.01); B63B 2035/008 (2013.01); B63B 2211/02 (2013.01); B63B 2213/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An unmanned seismic vessel system can include a hull system configured to provide buoyancy and a storage apparatus configured for storing one or more seismic nodes, each seismic node having at least one seismic sensor configured to acquire seismic data. A deployment system can be configured for deploying the seismic nodes from the storage apparatus to the water column, where the seismic data are responsive to a seismic wavefield, with a controller configured to operate the deployment system so that the seismic nodes are automatically deployed in a seismic array.