Attention:
Please note that operations with the Seismic Equipment can only be operated upon request. Request operations with the Seismic Equipoment to AWI-Geophysics and AWI-Logistics in sufficient time prior to the cruise. Operations of the system require experienced scientific staff on board. The system is not operated by the ship's crew.
Summary
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Contacts
Role | Name |
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Engineer in Charge | Thorsten Eggers |
Data Scientist | Wilfried Jokat |
Components
The Marine Seismic System consits of an airgun cluster (4 Airguns, GI-guns or G-guns) connected via pressure pipes to the compressor container, the hydrophone streamer and onboard data control and acquisition screens and computers including tape drives for data storage.
Subdevices
Position
Data logging, storage and archiving
Logged parameters
Central geographical ship's position and time standard
Time synchronising via Polarstern Network.
Geographical ship's position via Polarstern Network.
Rawdata storage on board
Raw data is temporarily stored to the data acquisition unit and written on tapes on a regular basis.
Dship
No data transfer to DShip.
Data archiving on land
After the cruise, the operator transfers the raw measurement data along with required meta data to AWI after consultaion with the data scientist and AWI Logistics. Then, the data including meta data can be extracted from https://www.pangaea.de/ (for authorized users only) for further processing.
File format(s) |
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Calibration certificates |
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