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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
David A Walker, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ; G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 46 ; 367 41 ; 364421 ;
Abstract
Harmonics, which appear with seismic reflection signals and are responsive to actual vibrations of a land-vibrator for petroleum exploration, are effectively utilized in pulse compression techniques by applying a correlation operator (CO) signal representative of the actual vibrations injected into the earth. In the invention, the CO signal may be acquired by detecting the motion of the baseplate of the land vibrator. Signal correlation procedures are then used to define an inverse filter whose output is pulse-like in response to the CO signal, and the reflected signal is applied to the inverse filter to yield a pulse compressed signal including harmonic energy.