BigShot Hydrophone Digitizer

Standard Features

  • High speed 24 bit data acquisition of near-field hydrophone channels.
  • Up to 10 second record length.
  • Can be configured for between 4 and 32 channels (expandable to 64 when combined with a second unit).
  • Data is stored in SEGY format.
  • User programmable:
    • record length
    • sample rate
    • x.5, x1, x2, and x5 gains
  • Data transferred to a Windows compatibile PC via a 100Mbit Ethernet interface.
  • Powerful Windows Graphical User Interface which allows:
    • change of acquisition parameters
    • calibration of near-field phones
    • display of near-field data records
    • documentation of gun array and hydrophone placement.

Far-Field Estimation Package

This is an optional feature which uses the near-field data to calculate an estimated far-field signature.

This signature can be used to perform Peak to Peak and Peak to Bubble estimations on a shot by shot basis.