Benefits of large channel capacity systems in electrical geophysics

Abstract

The merits and value of large channel capacity electrical geophysical systems reach further than simply collecting more responses per interpretation, which in itself is generally sufficient to justify the technology. In addition to that aspect are benefits related to productivity, SNR, and control or weighting of inversion and imaging data feed. No assessment of the cost/benefits analysis of pursuing large channel capacity technologies would have meaning without considering these many other side benefits. This paper contends that data collected with high resolution, highly synchronous, distributed acquisition systems are ideally suited for advanced data manipulation based on superposition principles.