Abstract: During 3D survey in transition zone,conventional linear NMO is usually adopted or shot point is directly checked to examine single-shot drift. However,this means is inefficient and the control quality cannot be ensured. A new quality control method for seismic acquisition based on sorting of minimum drift was proposed. The basic principles are:flattening first break to examine if taking off abnormally,and to eventually identify shot-point drift. During 3D seismic data acquisition in Berri Block of Saudi Arabia,GPS navigation system was used while shooting,and monitoring shot-point drift on the interface of GPS navigation system,to initially control shot point error. Then,the method was applied to control seismic data acquisition quality,to analyze and examine shot-point drift and receiver-point drift. The results show that the method can accurately check shot-point drift and receiver-point drift,and effectively improve the seismic data acquisition quality.