Proposal of Phases for Seismic Exploration:

• Calculating the position and the amount of the equipment for taking the seismic measures. Questions to be asked:
1. How much explosives do we need for the given territory?
2. Where should we position the explosives?
3. How many geophones do we need?
4. What are the optimal positions of those geophones?
• After the calculations phase is done, we position the geophones on the ground and drill the holes for positioning the explosives. The explosives holes and the geophones will be positioned using DGPS technology which provides the most accurate GPS measurements (2 meters to 30cm precision).
• It is possible to drill the needed holes (12 meters deep) with mobile drilling devices such as lightweight Ice Core Drills. They may be brought in to the needed territory using light helicopters or even one man snow-mobiles.

Complete drill with transportation protection ( http://www.icedrill.ch/ )

• The geophones and the detonators will be connected to the data recording unit. The recording unit may consist of as little as medium sized van which contains the recording equipment.

• The explosives will be positioned in the ground using the proper safe guidelines. They are also “capped” in order to direct the explosion downwards.
• The area will be evacuated.
  

• Synced detonation of explosives will be followed by seismic data being recorder on the data recording devices.

The left truck represents explosives position and the right truck the recording unit.

• The recording data will be processed for 3-D imagining and analysis of the region.
• Later seismic exploration can give us a fluid flow VS. time diagram, thus enabling another dimension (4-D Seismic).

• The last stage of the seismic exploration is the analysis of the data recorded by the recording unit.

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