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Air shooting

Term · Oil and gas · MLC-T-OAG-000085

A land seismic acquisition technique where the energy source is discharged in the air just above the Earth's surface instead of in a drilled shot hole. This method is employed in environmentally sensitive areas or where surface conditions, such as permafrost or hard rock, make drilling impractical. The resulting downward-traveling shock wave couples with the ground to generate the seismic waves recorded by geophones, though the energy transfer is less efficient than with buried sources.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-OAG-000085
FieldOil and gas
SubjectGeophysics
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-OAG-000085",
  "term": "Air shooting",
  "field": "Oil and gas",
  "definition": "A land seismic acquisition technique where the energy source is discharged in the air just above the Earth's surface instead of in a drilled shot hole. This method is employed in environmentally sensitive areas or where surface conditions, such as permafrost or hard rock, make drilling impractical. The resulting downward-traveling shock wave couples with the ground to generate the seismic waves recorded by geophones, though the energy transfer is less efficient than with buried sources.",
  "subject": "Geophysics",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oil-and-gas/air-shooting/"
}

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