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
