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Company Profile

Silicon Valley Startup in 1968Acquired by EG&G in 1976Added Seismograph Line in 1977Management Buyout in 1993Acquired Blackhawk Geosciences, 1996Acquired by OYO in May, 1997Acquired GeoVision May, 1998

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Facilities

30,000 sq. Ft. Manufacturing Facility

Electronic Design, Assembly and Test Equipment

Environmental Chambers

Magnetometer Test Chambers

Fourth Shift Computerized MRP System

Lease Pool for World-Wide Rental Business

10,000 sq. ft. Facility for Research and Services at Blackhawk

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Personnel

51 Employees Management

Experience: Schlumberger, EG&G, McKinsey

9 Engineers

7 Technical Staff 20 Manufacturing and

Materials 6 Service and Support 7 Administration 16 BlackHawk

Geosciences Employees

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Markets and Applications

Natural Resources Oil and Gas Exploration,

Minerals, Coal

GeoEngineering Construction,

Infrastructure, Buildings, Roads, Dams

Environmental and Hydrology UXO, Hazardous Waste

Scientific and Academic Geophysical, Crustal,

Marine Studies

Government Research, Mine

Detection, UXO

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Product Lines

Seismographs StrataView RX StrataView R SmartSeis CNT Controllers Geode Distributed

Modules

Magnetometers Proton Land and Marine Cesium Land Portables Cesium Marine Systems Cesium Airborne Systems

GeoElectric Products StrataGem CSAMT Hybrid OhmMapper Capacitively

Coupled Resistivity

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Seismographs

ES-1210 - 1977 ES-2415 - 1979 ES-2420 - 1983 ES-1225 - 1985 ES-2401- 1988 SmartSeis 12, 24 Channels - 1993 StrataView R, 12 - 60 Channels - 1994 StrataView RX, 12 - 60 Channels - 1995 StrataView R and RX Expansion - 1996 CNT-1 Controller - 1997 Geode Distributed System - 2000

***** Over 3000 Systems Sold ****

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Configurations

Acquisition PCB for OEM applications

3-24 channel Geode distributed module

Single Box 12 V Portable Module 12 to 72 Channels

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Configurations

132 Channel Rack Mount Module

Integrated 12 to 600 channel systems

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Configurations

12-600 Channel Rack Mount with Controller

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Configurations

On Board the Binhai 518, China Offshore Geophysical Company

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Controller Design Requirements

Many of our systems required integration with multiple computers

Must have ‘no data loss’ design philosophy

Must have real time data QC facilities

Must have automated instrument testing

Must work from common, inexpensive platform

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Controller Project Chronology

Project Started May, 1996

Basic version completed in October, 1996.

First Marine Systems Delivered Summer 1997

Sequential Tape Buffering Added March, 1998

Real-Time CDP Processing Added Summer 1998

Controller Generalized for Other Applications

Tomography Module Added Fall 1998

Earthquake Monitoring Application Added 1999

Explosive Ordnance Application 2000

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Development Effort

Development Time: 4 YearsCurrently 5 Man-YearsInvestment: $500KCode: 115,000 LinesSystems in Operation: 40

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Thread Diagram

Main

ThreadCommunication

ThreadWindowThreads

Write Tape Write Disk

Menusand

Mouse

NewParameters

Commandsto

StrataView

IncomingData

Re-Drawing

Printing

Serial I/ OThreads

DialogBoxes

Serial Input

Serial Output

Drawing

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Features

Fault Tolerant No Data Loss Even If All Tape Drives Fail

Maintains Data Ordering for ProcessingOptimized for Speed

Data can be collected on multiple inputs

Communicates with other devices navigation birds, compasses downhole encoders

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Features

Separate, Sizeable Windows Shot Multiple Simultaneous Gathers Source Energy, Shot Timing Noise Window User definable alarms with adjustable

thresholds Drives multiple plotters for various

displays

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Marine Customers

Geophysics Gpr. Int. Kawasaki Geological

Engineering, Japan National Institute of Water

and Atmospheric Research Northwest Geophysical

Services Ocean Research Institute of

Tokyo University SOGO Geophysical Exploration U.S. Geological Survey University of Aarhus,

Denmark Gardline Surveys, UK Gulf Ocean Services, Inc. Northern Geophysical of

America

Alfred Wegener Inst. for Polar and Marine Research

Bedford Institute of Oceanography

China Offshore Geophysical Company (Bohai)

ENEA ‑ Ente per le Nuove Technologie, Italy

Geological Survey of Canada University of Kiel, Germany Pukyong University NSA, University of Tokyo NDRIP Japan

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Reviews

Approved by Shell Exploration and Development Manufacturing and documentation

review by Peter Kayen, 1998 Instrumentation Review including

software

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Set up and operation

The following slides show the set up and operation of the marine controller for a typical survey

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Initial Screen showing tape drive status and labels

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Tape drive set up menu

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Serial input set up window to allow external data to be appended to the SEG-D extended header

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Acquisition Parameter Set-up

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Pre-amp gain setup

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Streamer sensitivity input allows calibration of noise monitor

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Very flexible data storage options

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Electronic Observers log, on-line details automatically updated

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Typical initial screen showing shot, gather, spectra, observers log, noise and trigger windows

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Dialogue box for adjusting gather windows, plus optional brute stack window

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Dialogue box for adjusting shot window

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Visual and audiable alarms can be operator selected

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Streamer noise, calibrated in micro bars

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Hot keys - Access most commonly used functions with a single key stoke

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Example Display