Recent years have seen rapid changes in the seismic industry, not least related to seismic acquisition. In acquisition these changes are driven by several factors:

• Desire to increase efficiency and reduce cost
• Acquisition over increasingly complex subsurface
• New insights and the ability of processing/imaging algorithms to deal with sparse / irregular data
• Increased scrutiny of environmental impact related to seismic surveys
• Emerging applications in wind, CCUS, geothermal, mineral exploration and others

This has led to a flurry of new, creative survey designs enabling the latest processing, velocity-model building and imaging technologies and enabled by novel equipment.

In the past, surveys could be designed based on relatively simple velocity functions, well-known sampling and linear imaging theory and could be implemented with relatively limited hardware choices.

In contrast, the large variation in applications, geographical and subsurface challenges and ever-increasing flexibility in processing and hardware choices we see today require much more bespoke survey designs.

In this workshop we plan to discuss new approaches to survey design that specifically address the above-mentioned changes.

 We welcome contributions related to:

• New survey design methodologies
• New survey designs, based on new hardware
• Survey designs leveraging new developments and flexibility in processing/imaging, including compressive sensing
• Survey designs for specific challenges (velocity model building, imaging below salt, etc…)
• Survey designs for new applications
• Survey designs in environmentally sensitive areas