[The Right tool] for full-wave cable-based land recording
Scorpion, ION's digital 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 software ensures the channel capacity and features required by today's increasingly complex survey designs. Scorpion, which supports digital full-wave VectorSeis, 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:
- PC-based Central Electronics and real-time software running on LINUX for improved system stability 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 redundancy and bi-directional power delivery capabilities
- The widest range of spread configurations with the system's three-port crossline units and DataBridge Wireless Backbones
- An intuitive user interface running on Microsoft Windows for quick adoption, ease of use and seamless management of all aspects of seismic data acquisition
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 Pelton Vib Pro and Shot Pro II source controllers to deliver accurate sweeps efficiently across all surface terrains
Enhanced Imaging
Scorpion enables high channel/station count operations and digital multi-component 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 full-wave digital VectorSeis data
- Rely on the system's high channel capacity to design surveys with full azimuth and offset coverage, and dense spatial sampling
