Seismic Data Acquisition System for Navy Oceanographic Measurements

Abstract

The seismic data acquisition systems presently owned by the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) and customarily used aboard NAVOCEANO ships, especially the AGORs, have been in service for at least 10 years, and in some instances for almost 20. The technology they are based upon is at least 25 years old. Technically, these systems are still capable of obtaining data of limited usefulness. However, since they lack benefits of some near-revolutionary development that has taken place in so-called exploration-type seismology during the last quarter-century, the data collection efforts of the Navy laboratories such as the Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity (NORDA) are seriously compromised. This report describes a highly flexible, state-of-the-art seismic system that would incorporate most of the latest developments while retaining the desirable features of the old systems. Keywords: hydrophones; seafloor; world ocean.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA175971

Entities

People

  • G. L. Maynard

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Compressors
  • Air Conditioning
  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Control Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detectors
  • Frequency Shift
  • Geophysics
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Printed Circuits
  • Seabed
  • Test Equipment
  • Transducers
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Oceanography.
  • Systems Analysis and Design