The following is management’s discussion and analysis of the major elements of our consolidated financial statements. You should read this discussion and analysis together with our consolidated financial statements, including the accompanying notes, and other detailed information appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the documents incorporated by reference herein, if any, contain “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “may”, “will”, “should”, “intend”, “expect”, “plan”, “budget”, “forecast”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “predict”, “potential”, “continue”, “evaluating” or similar words. Statements that contain these words should be read carefully because they discuss our future expectations, contain projections of our future results of operations or of our financial position or state other forward-looking information. These forward-looking statements reflect our best judgment about future events and trends based on the information currently available to us. However, there will likely be events in the future that we are not able to predict or control. The factors listed under the caption “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2009, as well as other cautionary language in such Annual Report on Form 10-K and this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, provide examples of risks, uncertainties and events that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations we describe in our forward-looking statements. The occurrence of the events described in these risk factors and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial position, and actual events and results of operations may vary materially from our current expectations.

Industry Overview

OYO Geospace Corporation is a Delaware corporation incorporated on September 13, 1997. Unless otherwise specified, the discussion in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q refers to OYO Geospace Corporation and its subsidiaries. We design and manufacture instruments and equipment used in the acquisition and processing of seismic data as well as in the characterization and monitoring of producing oil and gas reservoirs. Demand for our products has been, and will likely continue to be, vulnerable to downturns in the economy and the oil and gas industry in general. During the past 18 months, there has been substantial volatility in oil and natural gas prices. Please refer to the risks discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2009 for more information.

We have been in the seismic instrument and equipment business since 1980 and market our products primarily to the oil and gas industry. We also design, manufacture and distribute thermal imaging equipment and thermal media products targeted at the screen print, point of sale, signage and textile market sectors. We have been manufacturing thermal imaging products since 1995. We report and evaluate financial information for each of these two segments: Seismic and Thermal Solutions.

Seismic Products

The seismic segment of our business accounts for the majority of our sales. Geoscientists use seismic data primarily in connection with the exploration, development and production of oil and gas reserves to map potential and known hydrocarbon bearing formations and the geologic structures that surround them.

Seismic Exploration Products

A seismic energy source and a seismic data recording system are combined to acquire seismic data. We provide many of the components of seismic data recording systems, including data acquisition systems, geophones, hydrophones, multi-component sensors, seismic leader wire, geophone strings, connectors, seismic telemetry cables and other seismic related products. On land, our customers use our data acquisition systems, geophones, leader wire, cables and connectors to receive and measure seismic reflections resulting from an energy source to data recording units, which store information for processing and analysis. In the marine environment, large ocean-going vessels tow

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long seismic cables known as “streamers” containing hydrophones which are used to detect pressure changes. Hydrophones transmit electrical impulses back to the vessel’s data recording unit where the seismic data is stored for subsequent processing and analysis. Our marine seismic products help steer streamers while being towed and help recover streamers if they become disconnected from the vessel.

Our seismic sensor, cable and connector products are compatible with most major competitive seismic data acquisition systems currently in use, and sales result primarily from seismic contractors purchasing our products as components of new seismic data acquisition systems or to repair and replace components of seismic data acquisition systems already in use.

During fiscal year 2008, we announced the development of a land-based wireless (or nodal) data acquisition system. Each nodal station operates independently and therefore can be deployed in virtually unlimited channel configurations. Rather than utilizing interconnecting cables as required by most traditional land data acquisition systems, each nodal station operates as an independent data collection system. As a result, our nodal system requires less maintenance, which we believe allows our customers to operate more effectively and efficiently because of its reduced environmental impact, lower weight and ease of operation. Our nodal system is designed into configurations ranging from one to four channels per station. Since its introduction, we have received orders and/or delivered approximately 18,000 channels of our land-based nodal acquisition system to seven different customers, including an order for an 8,000 channel system (four channels per station) which was delivered on February 1, 2010. We also have over 2,000 additional channels available for rent by our customers.

In October 2009, we introduced a marine-based nodal data acquisition system. Similar to our land nodal system, the marine nodal system can be deployed in virtually unlimited channel configurations and does not require interconnecting cables between each station. Our deepwater versions of this nodal system can be deployed in depths of up to 3,000 meters.

Our wholly-owned subsidiary in the Russian Federation manufactures international standard geophones, sensors, seismic leader wire, seismic telemetry cables and related seismic products for customers in the Russian Federation and other international seismic marketplaces. Operating in foreign locations involves certain risks as discussed under the heading “Risk Factors – Our Foreign Subsidiaries and Foreign Marketing Efforts Face Additional Risks and Difficulties” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2009.

Seismic Reservoir Products

We have developed permanently installed high-definition reservoir characterization products for ocean-bottom applications in producing oil and gas fields. We also produce a retrievable version of this ocean-bottom system for use on fields where permanently installed systems are not appropriate or economical. Seismic surveys repeated over selected time intervals show dynamic changes within the reservoir and can be used to monitor the effects of production. Utilizing these tools, producers can enhance the recovery of oil and gas deposits over the life of a reservoir.

In addition, we produce seismic borehole acquisition systems which employ a fiber optic augmented wireline capable of very high data transmission rates. These systems are used for several reservoir characterization applications, including an application pioneered by us allowing operators and service companies to monitor and measure the results of fracturing operations.

Emerging Technology Products

Our products continue to develop and expand beyond seismic applications through the utilization of our existing engineering experience and manufacturing capabilities. We design and manufacture power and communication transmission cable products for offshore applications and market these products to the offshore oil and gas and offshore construction industries. These products include a variety of specialized cables, primarily used in deepwater applications, such as remotely operated vehicle (“ROV”) tethers, umbilicals and electrical control cables. These products also include specially designed and manufactured cables, including armored cables, engineered to withstand harsh offshore operating environments.

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In addition, we design and manufacture industrial sensors for the vibration monitoring and earthquake detection markets. We also design and manufacture other specialty cable and connector products, such as those used in connection with global positioning products and water meter applications.

Thermal Solutions Products

Our thermal solutions product technologies were originally developed for seismic data processing applications. In 1995, we modified this technology for application in other markets. Our thermal printers include both thermal imagesetters for graphics applications and thermal plotters for seismic applications. In addition, our thermal solutions products include direct-to-screen systems, thermal printheads, dry thermal film, thermal transfer ribbons and other thermal media. Our thermal imaging solutions produce images ranging in size from 12 to 54 inches wide and in resolution from 400 to 1,200 dots per inch. We market our thermal imaging solutions to a variety of industries, including the screen printing, point-of-sale, signage, flexographic and textile markets. We also continue to sell these products to our seismic customers.

The quality of thermal imaging is determined primarily by the interrelationship between a thermal printhead and the thermal media, be it film, ribbon, or any other media. We manufacture thermal printheads and thermal film, which we believe will enable us to more effectively match the characteristics of our thermal printers to thermal film, thereby improving print quality, and make us more competitive in markets for these products.

We also distribute private label high-quality dry thermal media for use in our thermal printers and direct-to-screen systems. In addition, we are continuously engaged in efforts to develop new lines of dry thermal film and ribbon in order to improve the image quality of our media for use with our printheads. In order to achieve more than marginal growth in our thermal solutions product business in future periods, we believe that it is important to continue our concentration of efforts on both our printhead and media improvements.

Worldwide Economic Slowdown

Demand for many of our products depends primarily on the level of worldwide oil and gas exploration activity. That activity, in turn, depends primarily on prevailing oil and gas prices and availability of seismic data. The recent domestic financial crisis arising out of the meltdown of the subprime lending market has caused significant distress to many global financial lending institutions, leading to a broader global financial crisis and a tightening of the availability of commercial credit. While signs of an economic recovery are present, many economists have predicted a prolonged worldwide economic recession and a slow recovery in the credit markets. These recessionary fears, combined with a decline in worldwide demand for energy, have caused energy commodity prices to decline substantially from an all-time high of approximately $145 per barrel in July 2008. As expected, these events have led to a decline in energy exploration activities in North America and in certain international markets, and we began to see the effects of this decline on our business during the first fiscal quarter of 2009. We have seen demand for many of our seismic exploration products decline, including significant declines in our Russian and Canadian seismic exploration markets. We believe some of our seismic customers may not possess the financial resources to survive a prolonged downturn in energy exploration, while others have scaled back their activities until financial markets stabilize and demand for exploration activities increases.

The uncertainty of these global economic matters and their ultimate impact on energy exploration activities and on our customers’ ability to access credit markets is difficult to forecast, and a decline in the demand for our seismic exploration products is likely to continue for the present time. Due to the sporadic demand for our seismic reservoir products, we have often described this portion of our seismic business as “lumpy.” In this current environment, we expect our seismic business levels will be even more erratic, including potential orders for our new land and marine-based nodal acquisition system. Singular events may result in severe swings in our future revenues in both positive and negative directions. If these economic events continue into the foreseeable future, they could have a material adverse impact on our revenues and profits for fiscal year 2010 and in future years.

We continue to monitor the impact that these economic conditions may have on our operations. We believe that our current cash balances, cash flows from operations and cash borrowings available under our credit facility will provide sufficient resources to meet our working capital liquidity needs for the next twelve months.

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Incentive Compensation Program

We adopted an incentive compensation program for fiscal year 2010 whereby most employees will be eligible to begin earning incentive compensation if the Company reached a five percent pretax return on stockholders’ equity, determined as of September 30, 2009. To be eligible to participate in this incentive compensation program, employees must participate in our Core Values Program. Based on our experience in prior years, we expect one hundred percent of our eligible employees to participate in the Core Values Program. The incentive compensation program does not apply to the employees of our Russian subsidiary as such employees participate in a locally administered bonus program. Certain non-executive employees are required to achieve specific goals to earn a significant portion of their total incentive compensation award. Any bonus awards earned under this program in fiscal year 2010 will be paid out to eligible employees after the end of the fiscal year.

Upon reaching the five percent threshold under this proposed program, an incentive compensation accrual will be established equal to 16.7 percent of the amount of any consolidated pretax profits above the five percent pretax return threshold. The maximum aggregate bonus available under the program for fiscal year 2010 is $3.4 million. Under this program, for the three months ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, we had accrued $19,000 and $0.1 million, respectively, of incentive compensation expense.

Overview

Three months ended December 31, 2009 compared to three months ended December 31, 2008

Consolidated sales for the three months ended December 31, 2009 increased by $0.5 million, or 1.8%, from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. This increase primarily reflects increased sales of our seismic products.

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Consolidated gross profits for the three months ended December 31, 2009 decreased by $0.9 million, or 10.7%, from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. This decrease resulted from an unfavorable seismic product mix.

Consolidated operating expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2009 decreased by $30,000, or 0.5%, from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. The decreased operating expenses primarily resulted from slightly lower levels of research and development expenditures in the current year.

Other expense for the three months ended December 31, 2009 decreased by $0.3 million from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. For the three months ended December 31, 2008, other expense included a $0.5 million foreign exchange loss incurred by our subsidiaries in Canada and the Russian Federation as a result of the revaluation of U.S. dollar denominated intercompany debts at these subsidiaries due to weakening local currency conditions in both countries. For the three months ended December 31, 2009, other expense included a fee of $142,000 resulting from the early extinguishment of debt.

The United States statutory tax rate for the three months ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 was 34.0%. The Company’s effective tax rates for the three months ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 were 30.3% and 35.7%, respectively. The effective tax rate for the three months ended December 31, 2009 benefited from the revaluation of a tax loss carryback for the Company’s Canadian subsidiary. The higher effective tax rate for the three months ended December 31, 2008 resulted from a tax charge of $85,000 to revalue the Company’s U.S. deferred tax assets and liabilities to a lower statutory tax rate.

Seismic Products

Net Sales

Sales of our seismic products for the three months ended December 31, 2009 increased by $0.9 million, or 4.1%, from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. The sales increase reflects a general increase in commodity seismic products for use in land and transition zone areas.

Operating Income

Our operating income associated with sales of our seismic products for the three months ended December 31, 2009 decreased by $0.8 million, or 19.9%, from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. While net sales increased compared to the prior fiscal year, our operating income decreased because the sales mix for the current period contains a greater amount of commodity products which yield lower gross profit margins. Contributing to the unfavorable sales mix is the reduced deployment by our marine customers of newly constructed large ocean-going seismic vessels. As a result, we saw our higher-margin marine product sales decline by $4.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2009 from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year.

Thermal Solutions Products

Net Sales

Sales of our thermal solutions products for the three months ended December 31, 2009 decreased by $0.4 million, or 11.9%, from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. This decrease was primarily due to decreased sales of thermal imaging equipment.

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Operating Income

Our operating income associated with sales of our thermal solutions products for the three months ended December 31, 2009 increased $0.1 million, or 51.8%, from the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year. The improvement resulted from increased production efficiencies.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

At December 31, 2009, we had $12.5 million in cash and cash equivalents. For the three months ended December 31, 2009, we generated approximately $5.3 million of cash in operating activities. Sources of cash generated in our operating activities resulted from net income of $1.1 million. Additional sources of cash included net non-cash charges of $1.1 million for deferred income tax expense, depreciation, amortization, stock-based compensation, inventory obsolescence and bad debts. Other sources of cash included (i) a $2.3 million decrease in inventories, (ii) a $0.9 million increase in accrued expenses and other, (iii) a $0.3 million increase in accounts payable due to increased purchases of raw materials and (iv) a $0.3 million decrease in prepaid expenses and other assets. These sources of cash were offset by a $0.9 million increase in trade accounts and notes receivable primarily resulting from increased sales. Throughout fiscal year 2009, we reduced our inventory levels in order to meet declining levels of product demand and to generate cash flows to reduce our outstanding indebtedness. Although our levels of inventory declined in fiscal year 2009, we continue to be subject to high levels of inventory obsolescence expense since our exposure to obsolete and slow moving inventories continues in the current environment. We are giving substantial attention to the management of our inventories in this area.

For the three months ended December 31, 2009, we used approximately $0.1 million of cash in investing activities for capital expenditures. We estimate that our total capital expenditures in fiscal year 2010 will be approximately $3.5 million.

For the three months ended December 31, 2009, we used approximately $1.0 million of cash in financing activities. These uses of cash included $1.5 million of principal payments on our mortgage loans, including a $1.3 million payment for the early pay-off of a mortgage, and a $0.1 million payment as a penalty for early extinguishment of debt. These uses of cash were offset by $0.5 million of cash proceeds received from the exercise of stock options and a $0.2 million tax benefit related to such exercised stock options.

On November 22, 2004, several of our subsidiaries entered into a credit agreement (the “Original Credit Agreement”) with a bank. The Original Credit Agreement has been amended periodically since 2004, and most recently on April 30, 2009 (as so amended, the “Credit Agreement”). Under the Credit Agreement, our borrower subsidiaries can borrow up to $25.0 million principally secured by their accounts receivable, inventories and equipment. The Credit Agreement expires on April 30, 2011. The Credit Agreement limits the incurrence of additional indebtedness, requires the maintenance of certain financial ratios, restricts our and our subsidiaries’ ability to pay dividends and contains other covenants customary in agreements of this type. We believe the most restrictive covenants in the Credit Agreement are (i) the fixed charge coverage ratio of EBITDA to certain charges, and (ii) the cash flow leverage ratio of total borrowings (excluding real estate borrowings) to adjusted EBITDA. We believe these covenants are more restrictive than covenants contained in the Credit Agreement as in effect prior to the April 30, 2009 amendment, and future borrowings available under the Credit Agreement could be limited or completely restricted if future operating results deteriorate. The interest rate for borrowings under the Credit Agreement is a LIBOR based rate with a margin spread of 300-400 basis points depending upon the maintenance of certain ratios. At December 31, 2009, there were no borrowings under the Credit Agreement, standby letters of credit outstanding in the amount of $0.5 million and additional borrowings available of $15.1 million.

Critical Accounting Policies

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires the use of estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. We consider many factors in selecting appropriate operational and financial accounting policies and controls, and in developing the estimates and assumptions that are used in the preparation of these financial statements. We continually evaluate our estimates, including those related to bad debt reserves, inventory obsolescence reserves, self-insurance reserves for medical expenses, product warranty reserves, intangible

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assets, stock-based compensation and deferred income tax assets. We base our estimates on historical experience and various other factors, including the impact from the current economic conditions, that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different conditions or assumptions.

Our long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever an event or change in circumstances indicates the carrying amount of an asset or group of assets may not be recoverable. The impairment review, if necessary, includes a comparison of expected future cash flows (undiscounted and without interest charges) to be generated by an asset group with the associated carrying value of the related assets. If the carrying value of the asset group exceeds the expected future cash flows, an impairment loss is recognized to the extent that the carrying value of the asset group exceeds its fair value.

Management makes judgments regarding the interpretation of tax laws that might be challenged upon an audit and causes changes to previous estimates of tax liability. In addition, we operate within multiple taxing jurisdictions and are subject to audit in these jurisdictions as well as by the United States Internal Revenue Service. In management’s opinion, adequate provisions for income taxes have been made for all open tax years. The potential outcomes of examinations are regularly assessed in determining the adequacy of the provision for income taxes and income tax liabilities. Management believes that adequate provisions have been made for reasonable and foreseeable outcomes related to uncertain tax matters.

We record a write-down of our inventories when the cost basis of any manufactured product, including any estimated future costs to complete the manufacturing process, exceeds its net realizable value. Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (as determined by the first-in, first-out method) or market value. Our subsidiary in the Russian Federation uses an average cost method to value its inventories.

We periodically review the composition of our inventories to determine if market demand, product modifications, technology changes, excessive quantities on-hand and other factors hinder our ability to recover our investment in such inventories. Management’s assessment is based upon historical product demand, future product demand and various other judgments and estimates. Inventory obsolescence reserves are recorded when such assessments reveal that portions or components of our inventory investment will not be realized in our operating activities.

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price of purchased businesses over the estimated fair value of the acquired business’ net assets. Intangible assets that are not deemed to have indefinite lives will continue to be amortized over their useful lives; however, no maximum life applies. We no longer record goodwill amortization expense and we review the carrying value of goodwill and other long-lived assets to determine whether there has been an impairment since the date of the relevant acquisition. We have elected to make September 30 the annual impairment assessment date and will perform additional interim impairment tests if a change in circumstances occurs that would indicate that the carrying value of long-lived assets may exceed their fair value amount. Under the fair value framework and due to the lack of quoted prices for identical items or an independent market analysis, we estimate the fair market value based on Level 3 inputs using both a market and income based approach. The goodwill impairment is tested at our Company’s seismic segment level as the goodwill relates to the purchase of several seismic related companies. The impairment test uses a weighted average cost of capital. The growth rate is based on the projected inflation rate. The assessment is performed in two steps: step one is to test for potential impairment and if potential losses are identified, step two is to measure the impairment loss. We performed step one as of September 30, 2009 and found that there were no impairments at that time; thus, step two was not necessary.

We primarily derive revenue from the sale, and short-term rental under operating leases, of seismic instruments and equipment and thermal solutions products. We generally recognize sales revenues when our products are shipped and title and risk of loss have passed to the customer. We recognize rental revenues as earned over the rental period. Rentals of our equipment generally range from daily rentals to rental periods of up to nine months or longer. Except for certain of our reservoir characterization products, our products are generally sold without any customer acceptance provisions and our standard terms of sale do not allow customers to return products for credit. In instances where the customer requires a significant performance test for our new and unproven products, we do not recognize the revenue attributable to the product as to which the performance test applies until the performance test is satisfied. Collection of revenue from the sale of large-scale reservoir characterization products may occur at various stages of production or after delivery of the product, and the collected funds are not refundable to the customer.

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Most of our products do not require installation assistance or sophisticated instruction. We offer a standard product warranty obligating us to repair or replace equipment with manufacturing defects. We maintain a reserve for future warranty costs based on historical experience or, in the absence of historical experience, management estimates. We record a write-down of inventory when the cost basis of any item (including any estimated future costs to complete the manufacturing process) exceeds its net realizable value.

We recognize revenue when all of the following criteria are met:

Occasionally, our seismic customers are not able to take immediate delivery of products which were specifically manufactured to the customer’s specifications. These occasions generally occur when customers face logistical issues such as project delays or with their seismic crew deployment. In these instances, our customers have asked us to hold the equipment for a short period of time until they can take physical delivery of the product (referred to as “bill and hold” arrangements). We consider the following criteria for recognizing revenue when delivery has not occurred:

We do not modify our normal billing and credit terms for these types of sales. As of December 31, 2009, we had no sales under bill and hold arrangements.

New Accounting Pronouncements

New accounting pronouncements that have been recently issued but not yet adopted by us are included in Financial Note 1, “Significant Accounting Policies,” in the Financial Notes in Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

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