Patent ID: 8811117

Claim:
A system for use in seismic data acquisition, comprising: a plurality of seismic data acquisition modules, disposed in series, operable to wirelessly communicate acquired seismic data, wherein said acquisition modules define a wireless serial data transfer path for relaying data from upstream acquisition modules to downstream acquisition modules and a data collection unit; a first acquisition module in said serial data transfer path for transmitting seismic data using a first multiplexing signature from a first multiplexing signature sequence during a first transmission period, wherein said first acquisition module advances through said first multiplexing signature sequence in successive transmission periods; and a second acquisition module in said serial data transfer path for transmitting seismic data using a second multiplexing signature from a second multiplexing signature sequence during the first transmission period, wherein said second acquisition module advances through said second multiplexing signature sequence in successive transmission periods; wherein said first acquisition module and said second acquisition module are spatially distributed with respect to said wireless serial data transfer path, and wherein said first acquisition module and said second acquisition module are synchronized such that said first acquisition module advances within said multiplexing signature sequence at substantially the same time as said second acquisition module advances within said second multiplexing signature sequence; and wherein said first multiplexing signature and said second multiplexing signature are different during the first transmission period.