http://www.seismictalk.com News and views, rants and raves from the seismic industry Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:16:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.seismictalk.com/pet-peeves http://www.seismictalk.com/pet-peeves#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:16:30 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/pet-peeves I just bought myself a new computer and reinstalling all of the software is one of those activities that I don’t particularly enjoy but I can live with that. What I find incredibly annoying is that a new computer and freshly downloaded antivirus software (direct from the manufacturers site) required almost 3 GB of updates. [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/pet-peeves/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/new-sensor-supports-oil-exploration http://www.seismictalk.com/new-sensor-supports-oil-exploration#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:00:48 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/new-sensor-supports-oil-exploration Sensor Systems claim to have made a the first advancement in almost 50 years in seismic sensors. The new device, an all-optical, fiber-optic omnidirectional geophone, requires no in-situ electronics, copper conductors, or electrical power. It incorporates a self-contained optical interrogation unit (using an optical time division multiplexing methodology) with integrated laser sources; all of the [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/new-sensor-supports-oil-exploration/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/vibroseis-versus-dynamite http://www.seismictalk.com/vibroseis-versus-dynamite#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:54:08 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/02/11/forums-now-operational/ I’m currently on a 2D job which is mainly flat but it does have one portion in the middle which has some hills requiring bulldozer cutting. The client emailed me the other day asking about using vibes in the hills as somebody at the office had asked if it wouldn’t be better to use dynamite. [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/vibroseis-versus-dynamite/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/passive-seismic-mapping-pstt http://www.seismictalk.com/passive-seismic-mapping-pstt#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:22:03 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/07/26/passive-seismic-mapping-pstt/ I recently came across an interesting article about a 3D seismic technology which does not use traditional type sources making it possible to use the technique in places otherwise locked out due to environmental concerns. Passive seismic mapping using passive seismic transmission tomography (PSTT) is a seismic technique which uses a sparse array of 3C [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/passive-seismic-mapping-pstt/feed 2