SYSTEM FOR POSITIONING A WIRE USING SENSOR INFORMATION

A system for determining coordinates for nodes on a wire secured to tow lines of a floating vessel for analyzing geological formations is provided. The system can include sensors in communication with a processor to determine the coordinates of nodes and provide azimuths tangential to the wire. A library of nominal values for third, fourth, or fifth order polynomial coefficients, a library of known distances along the wire, and a library of preset limits can be stored in a data storage. The system can include computer instructions to receive sensor information, compute bearing, reorient the coordinates, rotate the azimuth, construct a third, fourth, or fifth order polynomial algorithm, compute the azimuth, form a residual, compute updated differences until the residual is within preset limits, calculate local coordinates for nodes, and rotate the local coordinates from the local coordinate system to the projected coordinate system.