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Recording
The first production profile was recorded on the line on the 8 th August 2003 following the three hour testing
program.
A total of 197.6 km of data was recorded which consisted of 2,601 production records using the ARAM24
seismic recorder (Figure 4).
Full details of recording parameters used are given in appendix ‘I’.
Seismic data were recorded on SEGY format in 3490E magnetic tape and also compact disc. A second 3490E
tape was produced in the recording cab for later lodgement with the petroleum branch of PIRSA.
The ARAM24 shooting logs and the observers comments file were downloaded onto floppy disc.
Magnetic tapes were labeled with tape number, file range, VP range and date. Field tape listings are given in
appendix D.
Data from the field operations were passed to the ANSIR on-site processing geophysicist on a daily basis for
QA/QC.
Figure 4. Recorder on line near station 5600.
Field QC & processing.
ANSIR supplied an on site processing system and geophysicist for the duration of the field program.
A PC based LINUX platform running DISCO/FOCUS seismic processing software was used to QC field tapes
and data. This ensured that any problems with data or media were able to be addressed at an early stage.
In addition to being a good tool for QC of the data acquisition and experimental program this also allowed ‘field’
stacks to be produced as shown in Figure 5.
A set of SEGY shot records on DVD was also produced as a back up dataset using the field processing system.
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