Patent ID: 7142480
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: G01V

Abstract:
1. A method of acquiring seismic survey data comprising the steps of: a. Generating a terrestrially transmitted seismic survey event; b. Detecting seismic reflections of said event by seismic sensors; c. Generating by said sensors, sensor signals corresponding to said seismic reflections; d. Receiving said sensor signals by a signal processing module having a remotely controlled digital signal transmitter; e. Providing a digital signal recording and control system programmed with a functional interrelationship of digital signal transmission rate, digital signal carrier properties and digital signal transmission power; and f. Transmitting digital signals corresponding to said seismic reflections by said signal processing module along a digital signal carrier toward said signal recording and control system, said signal recording and control system setting the signal transmission power of said signal processing module at an optimum value as determined by the programmed interrelationship of said signal carrier properties.