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Scorpion

Scorpion, ION’s next generation cable-based land recording system, maximizes seismic crew productivity, ensures error-free recording and enables high channel count surveys and full-wave imaging.  The system’s field-proven System Four software ensures the channel capacity and features required by today’s increasingly complex survey designs.  Scorpion, which supports both digital full-wave VectorSeis and analog geophone acquisition, serves as the platform of choice for robust, efficient, user-friendly data recording in all land and transition zone environments. 

Raising the Bar in Field Productivity

Scorpion has been designed to maximize operational efficiency, providing geophysical contractors with:

  • New PC-based Central Electronics and real-time software migrated to LINUX for improved system stability and up-time
  • A new simplified design of the Analog line Unit (AU2) that reduces power consumption and improves system reliability and up-time
  • Standard setting up-time in areas characterized by static and  high energy pulse conditions
  • Rapid and intuitive troubleshooting of line faults
  • Built-in data path and bi-directional power delivery redundancy capabilities
  • The widest range of spread configurations with the system’s three-port crossline units and DataBridge™ Wireless Backbones
  • An intuitive user interface based on Microsoft Windows for quick adoption, ease of use and seamless access to and management of all survey parameters from a single window

Error-free Data Recording

Scorpion’s telemetry architecture, automated quality control system and source controller integration ensure that data is reliably and accurately recorded.  Geophysical contractors can count on:

  • The system checking each data packet at every ground electronics unit to ensure data integrity;  telemetry interruptions are overcome via the retransmission of data packets
  • Scorpion’s Source Aware capability to ensure that contractual requirements are fully met ― before each shot is taken.
  • Scorpion’s integration with ION’s Vib Pro source controllers to deliver fast and accurate sweeps across all surface terrains. 


Enhanced Imaging

Scorpion enables high channel/station count operations and multicomponent data acquisition, delivering improved spatial sampling, broader bandwidth data and improved image quality compared to competing recording systems.  With Scorpion, oil & gas companies can:

  • Acquire both digital VectorSeis and analog geophone data  –  even on the same survey 
  • Rely on the system’s high channel capacity to design surveys with full azimuth and offset coverage, and dense spatial sampling
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Additional Information


Introduction to Scorpion Archived Webinar

Interact with Scorpion

Scorpion brochure

Scorpion spread diagram (high res)

Scorpion spread diagram (low res)

Scorpion Makes its Debut, Hart's Coverage SEG 2006

Case Study


Full-wave Imaging for Heavy Oil

Scorpion - Improving Productivity in Land Acquisition

News Alert


ION Announces Release and First Sale of Scorpion

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