Information System-Articulated Geophysical Engineering and Survey Designs and Plans—Managing Field Operations and Environments

Surveyors, explorers and managers investigate for improvements in geophysical operations in hassle-free environments, including planning, survey designs and budgetary regulations. The critical tasks are field crew induction, wildlife and domestic animal protection, oil spill prevention, land management, built-up areas and shot hole drilling. Geophysical field-data acquisition tasks include survey planning, landowner and community consultations, ecological awareness, operations, road and truck movements and campsite establishment. Besides, field and cable layouts, survey type, arrays, machinery and source usage and latitude and longitude of survey areas need attention while scrutinizing survey operations, including a detailed examination of geological features. Waste management, explosive ordinance areas, abandoning survey areas and campsites are added challenges while managing geophysical field operations. Under survey operations, careful handling of chemicals and hazardous material management, emergency responses, geophysical survey completions and environmental audits need attention in project executions. Manageable crop compensations in the fields can ease settlements with farmers and landowners whose lands are damaged by geophysical surveys. Finally, rehabilitation of field areas is focused on abandoning seismic lines and tracks, including campsites. The research aims to examine the challenges of the geophysical surveys in a diverse range of environments, including land use. We interpret various entities and dimensions of the geophysical survey designs, plans to articulate, and model field operations and the environments for which databases are operationalized. We construe the entities and dimensions for articulating Information Systems (IS) artefacts in geophysical engineering. Several schemas are prepared pertinent to geophysical operations, environment awareness, men, machinery and materials movement and management, including hazards, time and budgetary constraints to integrate data-driven structures in repository systems. We propose a shared common ontology approach with knowledge-based connectivity between attribute dimensions. Multidimensional structures are designed to unify metadata and its management. The IS artefacts are reusable by changing key attributes such as period and geography attribute dimensions. The approach facilitates easy handling of geophysical operations and environmental challenges by explorers, surveyors and managers involved in geophysical surveys, including land procurement and disaster management, to acquire quality geophysical data.