Very High Speed Ordered Mesh Network of Seismic Sensors for Oil and Gas Exploration

Beffa, M.; Crice, Doug; Kligfield, R.

doi:10.1109/mobhoc.2007.4428746

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“…This solution is very expensive and labor intensive because it involves laying out many tons of cables. The use of cabling accounts for up to 50 percent of the total operating cost of a typical land survey and up to 75 percent of the total equipment weight [1][2] . Meanwhile, in some areas, it is difficult to lay down cables because of terrain, environmental concerns, non-permit areas, and barriers like highways and rivers.…”

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Hierarchical High-speed No-blind Networks Used in Land Seismic Explorations

Xiao-pu¹,

Bin²,

Ji³

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Environment and Engineering Geophysics &Amp; Summit Forum of Chinese Academy

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With seismic explorations developing quickly, traditional communicating technologies used in land seismic explorations expose more and more shortcomings. For example, conventional cable-based land exploration systems are very expensive, labor intensive and difficult to be laid down in complex terrain, while the cable-free ones have not been widely used in large-array and high-density land seismic explorations, which requires real-time data retrieve, for the limits of communication system. In order to realize real-time large-array high-density land seismic exploration everywhere, a high-speed communication system, which has a large area signal cover without bind zone, is needed to be set up. For this purpose, a network, we called Hierarchical High-speed No-blind Network (HHNN), is proposed. There are two layers, which are core network and extended network, in HHNN. Generally, core network, using LTE (Long Term Evolution) technologies, fulfills high-speed communication and a large area signal cover, while extended network, using self-organized network technology, make the exploration area no-blind. Core network can be set up by both the LTE network deployed by operators and the network deployed by the crew, using LTE technologies. Extended network can be organized without the crew's operation by adopting the multi-hop reliable communication protocol which is designed by this paper. As the test result showing, HHNN can basically be used to realize a real-time large-array high-density seismic data acquisition.

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confidence: 99%