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Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing Model Answer

The document is a quiz on seismic data acquisition and processing with 10 multiple choice questions and answers. The questions cover topics like vibroseis sources, air gun sources, use of streamers and pressure detectors, digital recording principles, static corrections, trace editing, FK domain transforms, NMO corrections, and CMP stacking.

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Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing Model Answer

The document is a quiz on seismic data acquisition and processing with 10 multiple choice questions and answers. The questions cover topics like vibroseis sources, air gun sources, use of streamers and pressure detectors, digital recording principles, static corrections, trace editing, FK domain transforms, NMO corrections, and CMP stacking.

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Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing Quiz Answers

1) It transmits into the earth a long-duration signal the frequency of which varies
linearly with time; this is:
a. The dynamite ( )
b. The dinoseis ( )
c. The vibroseis ( / )
d. All of the above ( )
2) A volume of high-pressure air, stored in a chamber is suddenly released
underwater to form an air bubble; this is the:
a. Water gun ( )
b. Air gun ( / )
c. Geoflex ( )
d. Vibroseis ( )
3) Pressure-sensitive detectors are used:
a. Only in water covered areas ( / )
b. Only in onshore areas ( )
c. Anywhere ( )
d. None of the above ( )
4) The Streamer is a
a. Surface-reference cable ( )
b. Bottom-reference cable ( )
c. submerged buoyant cable ( / )
d. Land seismic cable ( )
5) The principle of digital recording is that
a. voltage amplitudes analogous to the seismic motion are measured at
regular time intervals and converted into numbers ( / )
b. the vibrations of the earth's surface as analogous displacements ( )
c. based on the principles of electrodynamics ( )
d. All of the above
6) What data from the following is needed for static corrections?
a. Sources and Receivers elevations ( )
b. Weathering layer thickness ( )
c. Weathering layer velocities ( )
d. All of the above ( / )
7) Trace editing is used for
a. zeroing all of the samples in the bad trace ( )
b. omit bad record ( )
c. Polarity reversal for the trace that is recorded of polarity reversed with
respect to all other traces ( )
d. All of the above ( / )
8) When we transform seismic data into the FK domain
a. dipping events in time/space become single points ( )
b. dipping events in time/space become dipping events in
frequency/wavenumber ( / )
c. Inverse Fourier transform is used ( )
d. All of the above ( )
9) NMO correction is applied
a. On the data as it was recorded ( )
b. On the shot gathers ( )
c. On data sorted to the CMP gathers ( / )
d. On common velocity gathers ( )
10)Which of the following processes sum all of the data from one common mid-point
a. CMP Gathering ( )
b. CDP Gathering ( )
c. CMP Stacking ( / )
d. Shot Stacking ( )

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