Distributed Computing and Data Sharing in Marine Seismic Acquisition

Abstract

Marine seismic operations have benefitted by the increased use of computers and sharing of data throughout the functions of marine acquisition. Spurred by the increased demands of threedimensional surveys and the development of marine telemetric digital streamers, these hardware and software advancements have improved quality control standards to maintain optimal data quality at all times.Although much has been written on the advantages of each functional system, this paper gives an overview of the types of computations which are being handled by each processor, and the types of data which are gathered and distributed by the terminals and computers. Also, future advancements can be seen which will further improve the efficiency and accuracy of marine acquisition.Although descriptions of the systems include attributes from many of the available units, this paper is based on the marine operations of Digicon Geophysical Corp.