Design of a geophone for marine seismology

From 1996 the Marine Technology Department (UTM) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) and the Remote Acquisition and Data Processing Systems (SARTI) of the Technical University of Catalonia W C ) , work in collaboration with The University of Cambridge through a series of national projects of technology transfer. Thus they have developed the first ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) in Spain. This autonomous equipment which lands on the ocean bottom, registers waveforms of data (acoustic waves) artificially generated from an oceanographic vessel (active seismology) or otherwise it registers near seismic waves (passive seismology). Through mathematical algorithms, this allows to deduce the cortical distribution (velocity, deepness), and geological properties of the rocks and the different level [I].