Method and apparatus for verifying the location of a seismic bottom cable in real time

One or more slave acoustic transponders are secured to selected parts of a seismic bottom cable whose location is imperfectly known. A master transponder broadcasts an interrogation pulse from each of a number of different, known locations distributed along a line of survey. In response to an interr...

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Hauptverfasser:	NORTON, JR., JOHN P, BEHRENS, WILLIAM H
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES GEOPHYSICS GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES MEASURING PHYSICS RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING RADIO NAVIGATION TESTING
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Zusammenfassung:	One or more slave acoustic transponders are secured to selected parts of a seismic bottom cable whose location is imperfectly known. A master transponder broadcasts an interrogation pulse from each of a number of different, known locations distributed along a line of survey. In response to an interrogation pulse, a slave transponder emits an encoded signal that is received by the master transponder. The acoustic flight time between each pulse broadcast and encoded-signal reception constitutes a range measurement to the participating slave transponder. Resolving a gather of several range measurement from different known broadcast locations, focussed on an identifiable transponder, defines the transponder location.