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Geophysical survey system

Assignee: STATE OF ISRAEL MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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Filing: 1990-09-14
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2010-09-14
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Abstract

Abstract A geophysical survey system including a remotely piloted vehicle, a geophysical sensing payload mounted thereon and ground based control and data receiving means.

Inventors

  • 👤 Gideon Steinitz
  • 👤 Hovav Zafrir
  • 👤 Yair Dubester

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-07 20:10
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01V; G01V5/00; G01V5/02; G01V1/00; G01V1/22; G01V11/00; G01V11/002; G01V3/00; G01V3/18; G01V3/34

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim 27 words
A geophysical survey system comprising: a remotely piloted vehicle; a geophysical sensing payload mounted on the remotely piloted vehicle; and ground based control and data receiving means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 27 words
A geophysical survey system comprising: a remotely piloted vehicle; a geophysical sensing payload mounted on the remotely piloted vehicle; and ground based control and data receiving means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 24 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 1 and also comprising means for real-time analysis of received geophysical data from said geophysical sensing payload.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 27 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 2 and also comprising means for processing, interpretation and map display of geophysical data derived from said geophysical sensing payload.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 18 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 1 and wherein said geophysical sensing payload comprises a radiometric payload.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 17 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 4 and wherein said radiometric payload comprises nuclear detection means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 17 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 5 and wherein said radiometric payload comprises nuclear scintillation means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 22 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 6 and wherein said radiometric payload also comprises means for cooling said nuclear scintillator means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 30 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 7 and wherein said means for cooling comprises thermoelectric means and wherein said nuclear scintillator means are located in a thermally isolated housing.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 30 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 1 and wherein said ground based control and data receiving means comprises separate mobile tracking and communication and control and geophysical analysis units.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 18 words
A geophysical survey system according to claim 9 and wherein said separate units are interconnected by wireless relays.

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