Multicomponent Theory
Introduction to OBS
SEGY Input for OBS
Input SEGY and OTDS Literals
Acquisition QC
100

Pressure, fluid content, clay content, all affect this.

Velocity of the propagating wave

100

The Z component is recorded by this kind of receiver

Geophone

100

These two headers are important to read in for OBN data

Tilt and rotation

100

This is the literal that stores the component types (P,Z,X, and Y)

FIELD_SENSOR_TYPE

100

This process simultaneously accounts for the various timing delays or acquisition perturbations observed in data.

SWC process

200

This type of wave spent part of it's travel time as a compressional and shear wave

Converted wave

200

The combination of X and Y components are called this kind of deliverable

Radial

200

This phrase could describe the problem when reading OBS data from contractors

lack of standardization

200

This is the number that is stored in DATA_TRACE_TYPE for Z data

333

200

These two processes need to be applied to data before running the timing QC workflow.

Nav Merge and Source directivity correction

300

This type of anisotropy is the same as Traverse isotropy

Polar anisotropy

300

This domain is most often used for OBS data

Receiver

300
What could help with understanding contractors format

OBN processing startup template

300

The reflectors on these components of data appear later in time than on the Z component

X and Y

300

This type of data variation is affected more in deep marine environments than shallow water.

Water velocity

400

This type of receiver measures pressure

Hydrophone

400

This is the type of acquisition when the source lines are parallel to the receiver lines

Inline OBS survey

400

This document(s) will help with starting to read in contractor nodal data

Best practice

400

This combination of data order indicates that the OBS data is sorted by reciever

DETECT_LINE_ID/DETECT_POINT_ID/SOURECE_POINT_ID

400

This kind of drift is a phenomena that is unique to this kind of acquisition.

Clock drift

500

This type of receiver measures directionality of a wave

Geophone

500

This is the kind of acquisition that has a sparse grid of receivers and a dense carpet of shots

Sparse node acquisition

500

This phenomena is unique to nodal data and describes when a node's clock doesn't match a reference clock

Clock drift

500

This component doesn't have bubble energy

Z

500

This type of energy appears stronger on OBS data than towed streamer data.

Bubble energy