Recent advances in the acquisition of onshore seismic data without cables have greatly reduced impacts on environmental and heritage values and increased recording efficiency. Onshore oil and gas exploration has expanded significantly across Australia. As a result, the need to gather quality data while reducing the environmental, social, and safety impacts of the activities has driven innovation in exploration technologies. In WA, exploration permits are granted for areas that include privately held farm land, pastoral leases or unallocated crown land. This can result in tensions between exploration companies, their contractors, and land holders. Cable-less seismic data acquisition systems provide significant opportunities to reduce the environmental, community, and safety impacts. Cable-less systems typically require significantly fewer trips along the acquisition line, considerably reducing the likelihood of negative impacts on plants, animals, and soils in the area. Other benefits include reducing fuel consumption, vehicle and traffic movement and the risk of injury to the seismic crew associated with the deployment of cables. This extended abstract reviews the recent use of a cable-less system for Fleet Resources’ seismic acquisition conducted by Terrex Seismic in the Carnarvon Basin, WA, demonstrating the environmental, social, and safety benefits compared with traditional cabled systems for both 3D and 2D seismic programs. This extended abstract also draws on the experiences of Terrex’s use of the technology on behalf of UIL Energy and it explores the opportunities for capturing these benefits during the preparation of environmental and safety plans for regulatory approval.