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Geophysical benefits from an improved seismic vibrator
Author(s) -
Wei Zhouhong,
Hall Michael A.,
Phillips Thomas F.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
geophysical prospecting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.735
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1365-2478
pISSN - 0016-8025
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2011.01008.x
Subject(s) - seismic vibrator , vibrator (electronic) , geology , seismology , gemology , quality (philosophy) , consistency (knowledge bases) , regional geology , acoustics , geophysics , computer science , telmatology , engineering geology , tectonics , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , volcanism
The seismic vibrator has become a very important source for land data acquisition and there have been dramatic improvements in recent times in the application of the vibroseis technique. These improvements have led to much increased productivity and in many cases much denser source sampling. At the same time, the vibrator itself has seen little improvement over the last couple of decades. There are needs in a few areas where an improvement in the vibrator itself can bring benefits to the quality of the seismic data acquired. This paper describes progress in four such areas, low‐frequency performance, high‐frequency performance, an improved estimate of the vibrator groundforce and source signature consistency over variable ground conditions. Each of these vibrator characteristics will be discussed in turn. Meanwhile, two field test results in which the performance of two different vibrators in these four areas are compared.