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

RoleName
Engineer in ChargeThorsten Eggers
Data ScientistWilfried Jokat

Components

The Marine Seismic System consits of onboard data control and acquisition computers and tape drives for data storage, a hydrophone streamer and an airgun cluster (GI-guns or G-guns) connected via pressure pipes to the compressor container.

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

Not implemented, responsibility with respective user.