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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2019
Applicant:
Ion Geophysical Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Clement B. Guillot, III, Thibodaux, LA (US);
Assignee:
ION Geophysical Corporation, Harahan, LA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 1/3835 (2013.01); G01V 1/3808 (2013.01);
Abstract
A ranging system comprises a plurality of receivers. A plurality of transmitters is configured to generate acoustic or ranging signals over one or more channels. A processor is configured to define a subset of the transmitters within a predefined limited range or listening distance of each receiver. In the subset, the transmitters are configured to generate the acoustic signals over different channels.