Patent ID: 7773457

Claim:
A method for use in seismic data acquisition, comprising the steps of disposing, in series, a plurality of seismic data acquisition modules that are operative 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; assigning a first acquisition module in said serial data transfer path a first transmission frequency; assigning a second acquisition module in said serial data transfer path a second transmission frequency, wherein said first and second transmission frequencies are different; first transmitting, on said first transmission frequency, seismic data from said first acquisition module to at least one downstream acquisition module; and second transmitting, on said second transmission frequency, seismic data from said second acquisition module to at least one downstream acquisition module; wherein at least a portion of said first transmitting and at least a portion of said second transmitting occur simultaneously.