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Three-Dimensional Seismic Array Characterization Study: Experiment And Modeling, Arslan M. Tashmukhambetov, George E. Ioup, Juliette W. Ioup, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, Joal J. Newcomb

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In the summer of 2003, the Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center conducted an acoustic characterization experiment for a 21-element marine seismic exploration airgun array of total volume of 0.0588 m³ (3590 in.³). Two Environmental Acoustic Recording System buoys, one with a desensitized hydrophone, were deployed at a depth of 758 m in a water depth of 990 m, near Green’s Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico. Shots over a grid were recorded and calibrated to produce absolute broadband (up to 25 kHz) pressure-time dependencies for a wide range of offsets and arrival angles in the water column. Experimental …