Workshop description

It is by now established that the future of seismic data acquisition clearly dictates a significant increase in spatial sampling for both receiver and shot domains in order to acquire high density, high resolution data. Currently, a large acquisition seismic crew, can record over 60K live channels which correspond to a roughly 5Tb of data per day, which in turn is equivalent to 100 days of recording using a high-definition camcorder. There is a trend towards the deployment of several 100 thousands of channels to increase the overall efficiency of seismic acquisition. The increase in the number of channel should see a proportional increase in the source productivity, easily doubling the number of vibrators on a crew.
At sea we see a similar drive for efficiency in streamer and nodal acquisition with a significant increase in data quality. This can only be accomplished with fundamentally new sampling and acquisition strategies and configurations.

This workshop will discuss novel strategies for sampling sources and receivers to accomplish the goal of efficient and high-quality acquired data as well as the possibilities of employing customized robotic solutions for seismic equipment deployment, retrieval, data harvesting, automated or autonomous sources and more.

Possible topics

• Source and receiver sampling
• Simultaneous sources
• Sparse sensing 
• Dispersed source arrays
• Automated solutions for QC, Deployment, Retrieval and Data Harvesting
• Wireless acquisition

*If you are interested in attending the workshop, make sure to register as soon as possible via the following webpage.

Workshop Programme

*A downloadable version can be found here