General

Orca - General

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Modules
Orca Core
Discussed Functionality
Orca Multi-vessel
Ability to shoot with slave Orca

LICENCE

MANDITORY

OPTIONAL

ORCA PREDICTION
ORCA 2D

ORCA CORE

ORCA SAFTEY
ORCA OFFICE

sub-systems

Orca 4D

ORCA MULTIVESSEL

Shooting against a Baseline

ORCA 4D

survey

Orca Office

ORCA OFFICE
ORCA 3D

ORCA CORE
ORCA SAFETY

Survey monitoring in Office

Under development
Safety/Prediction/Autosteering
(Future development)

ORCA AUTOSTEERING
3D/4D
ORCA PREDICTION

ORCA SLAVE

ORCA CORE

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Multi-vessel Steered/Shooting Points

Steered Point
Rotation Point on Vessel
Autopilot Steering Reference
Selected in OCN
Shooting Point
Target for Preplot Shot Prediction
Vessel (X/Y)
Mean Gun Position (Y)
Mean Receiver Position (X/Y)
FCMP

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Multi-vessel Configuration
V1

V2

Add V2 as slave to
be configured locally

Create new slave survey

Make any changes needed

Detect passive mode and merge

Router
transfers
config to
master

Router
transfers
config to slave

Publish

Enter passive mode

Slave config duplicate of masters.

V2 now fully in slave mode

Router transfers config from master to slave, and status

messages and items in both directions

Delete/Suspend slave

Return to previous survey, or

create new master survey

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Multi-vessel Planner

Individual Turns per vessel

Linked or Independent Turns

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Multi-vessel Bullseyes
Online
Steered Point Bullseye per vessel
Shooting Point Bullseye per vessel
Based on independent shotpoint DA
values per track

Offline
Steered Point Bullseye per vessel
Based on percentage turn completed
Steering offset under local or master
vessel control
Steering always carried out on local
vessel

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4D Baseline Import
Preplots

Steered Track Datastore

P1/90

P1/90 format
Original Source Position
Gun Skew
Streamer Feather
Custom H2600 Records
Single file contains all Preplots
Previous Preplots removed
Creates Shotpoint Positions

All vessel tracks

Shotpoint positions
Source Positions
Gun Skew
Streamer Feather

ORCA
Web

Survey
Configuration
Datastore

Steered Track
Datastore

ORCA
ORCA
Web
Planner

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4D QC
Exceptions
Original Source Positions
Shooting Point Positions

Displays

Steered Point QC
Source Position QC
Gun Skew QC
Feather QC

Diagnostics
Positioning 4D Display

Web
QC Report 4D Section

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Administration Backup
Primary/Secondary System
Workstation
RAID Disk array
PowerRTNU

Primary System

Administration
Agent

Primary
Datastores

Real Time Backup

Secondary System
Backup Raw Datastore
Backup Line/Shot Datastore
Backup Event/Edit Datastore

EOL Backup

Administration Agent
Backup of Configuration Datastore
Backup of P1/P2 Files
Backup of Production Datastore
Backup of Coverage Files
Backup of Reports

Secondary System
Raw
logger

Line/Shot
logger

SecondaryD
atastores

Event
logger

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Digicourse - Configuration
1

System3 Setup and Configuration

done within OCN

Single point of data entry.

System3 Setup now redundant.
OCN Publish triggers ODI.

Orca DMU Interface (ODI)

System3 DMU

ORCA

ORCA
DATASTORE

Diagnostics
4

ORCA / DMU
INTERFACE
2

Downloads configuration to in-water units.

Diagnostics

Reads and converts configuration.

If necessary compiles acoustic timing
schedule.
Communicates with DMU and downloads
new configuration.
Handles all return communications.

ORCA
CONFIGURATION

ODI and DMU Status

Command Progress / History

DigiCourse
System 3 DMU

OI

Auto Updates

Changes made at OI written back to Orca

In Water Units

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Digicourse - Deployment
1

ORCA Deployment Node

Using all available data determines which

acoustic units are in the water.
Builds acoustic deployment network
Informs ODI

ORCA Deployment
Node

Orca DMU Interface (ODI)

Reads and converts deployment network.

Compiles acoustic timing schedule.
If necessary, reduce complexity and retry.
Once successful, Download to DMU.

ORCA / DMU
INTERFACE

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3

System3 DMU

Deploy an Acoustic Unit

Downloads deployment configuration only to

acoustic units in water.

DigiCourse
System 3 DMU

OI

Acoustic Units still deployed via OI

Deployed unit now available to use

In Water Units

New unit can be used by Deployment Node

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Future
Orca Prediction
Feather Matching
Tidal/Spatial Current Analysis

Orca Autosteering
3D Coverage
4D Source

Orca Safety
Orca Office

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