A high density and precise streamer cable digitizer for marine seismic exploration system

Author

Wu, Zenghai ; Cao, Ping ; Song, Kezhu ; Zhang, Keli ; Zhang, Sifeng

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Technol. of Particle Detection & Electron., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Hefei, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

28-31 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

548

Lastpage

551

Abstract

A reliable high density and precise streamer cable digitizer for marine seismic exploration system is introduced. In this digitizer, there are total 16 data acquisition channels each of which can be connected to hydrophones directly. Analog signals are converted into digital data by 24-bit high precise ΔΣ ACDs which is controlled by FPGA in real time. For quality control (QC) testing online, there are also 24-bit high precise DACs in the digitizer. The digitizer meets the requirements of marine seismic exploration, after all the specifications are well tested. The noise of the digitizer is 1.2μV. The total harmonic distortion (THD) is better than -115dB and the common mode rejection ratio (CMRR) reaches to 110dB. Finally, system dynamic range specification reaches to 120dB. Scheme of real time system control and remote synchronization is also designed and realized in the digitizer based on architecture of serial concurrent bus which is implemented in FPGA. With little modification, this streamer digitizer can be used in land seismic exploration and other related remote sensing systems.

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; geophysical prospecting; oceanographic equipment; remote sensing; seismology; FPGA; analog signals; common mode rejection ratio; data acquisition channels; digital data; hydrophones; land seismic exploration; marine seismic exploration system; quality control testing; remote sensing systems; remote synchronization; streamer cable digitizer; system dynamic range specification; total harmonic distortion; Data acquisition; Data communication; Field programmable gate arrays; Power cables; Sensors; Switches; Synchronization; FPGA; data acquisition; dynamic range; marine seismic exploration; remote sensing system; total harmonic distortion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IITA-GRS), 2010 Second IITA International Conference on

Conference_Location

Qingdao

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8514-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IITA-GRS.2010.5602679

Filename

5602679