Date: 22 - 26 June 2026
Location: Université de Pau. Pau, France
Instructors: Claudio Strobbia, Enrico Ceragioli, Claire Grimshaw

Course Description

A complete hands-on training experience for modern land seismic operations. The one-week program provides professionals with the skills to design, plan, supervise, and QC land seismic projects from feasibility through data acquisition, processing, and imaging. Led by world-class instructors with decades of experience, the course combines high-level theory with real field operations, including nodal deployment, surveying , and vibrator operation and testing.

A real seismic vibrator will be mobilised, a real nodal system will be available, and actual seismic experiments will be designed and performed.

The courses will be held in-person.

Course Objectives

Participants gain practical insight into survey design, advanced vibroseis methods, high-productivity acquisition, land-specific noise and statics challenges, and modern processing workflows, data analysis tools. They also gain operational awareness, technical proficiency, and the ability to design, QC and manage land seismic projects with confidence.

Masterclass Programme

Acquisition

The programme will cover the following key points on Acquisition

• Land seismic sources & receivers
• Transition to nodal recording systems
• Survey design (basic → advanced modeling)
• High-density, sparse/frugal & irregular geometries
• Vibroseis technology (ISS/MSS/DS3, slip-sweep, broadband sources)
• QC workflows, audits & startup procedures
• Field operations & data quality control

Processing and Imaging

The programme will cover the following key points on Processing and Imaging

• Land-specific challenges: statics, amplitudes, wavelet variability
• Noise analysis: coherent & incoherent
• Deblending of high-productivity simultaneous shooting
• Harmonic analysis and mitigation
• Velocity modeling & onshore FWI
• Processing sequences for 2D, 3D, crooked-line & wide-line surveys

Hands On Training

The programme includes a hands on training that covers the following:

• Designing survey geometries
• Using RTK GPS and evaluating accuracy
• Programming & deploying nodal systems
• Coupling tests, harvesting, and analyzing passive/active datasets
• Designing sweeps and testing vibroseis performance
• Ground-force estimation, phase & harmonic analysis
• Practical processing and QC exercises

Participant's Profile

This course is ideal for professionals seeking to deepen knowledge of modern acquisition technologies, survey design, and land imaging, young geophysicists, engineers, and field supervisors entering operational or technical roles and project managers, QC specialists, and contractor/client representatives involved in planning or oversight of seismic projects.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand land seismic source & receiver technologies, including the transition to nodal systems;
• Evaluate and design 2D, 3D, high-density, irregular, sparse/frugal and wide-line geometries;
• Perform survey design modeling, predicting signal, noise and illumination;
• Plan, QC, and supervise vibroseis, explosive, and weight-drop operations;
• Execute and assess source tests, audits, vibrator performance, harmonic analysis, and slip-sweep rules;
• Understand surveying principles, RTK positioning, and deployment logisticsProcessing & Imaging;
• Understand the full suite of land-specific challenges: statics, amplitude & wavelet variations, complex near surface, coherent/incoherent noise;
• Apply noise analysis and mitigation strategies including surface waves, guided waves, scattered waves, deblending, and harmonic handling;
• Build robust velocity and statics models, including modern onshore FWI;
• Construct 2D, 3D, crooked-line, and wide-line processing sequencesField Competencies;
• Design and test vibrator sweeps;
• Program, deploy, QC, and harvest nodal receivers;
• Evaluate coupling, ground force, mass/plate signals, phase distortions, and harmonic content;
• Collect and interpret passive & active datasets in a controlled environment.

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