The laboratory of geomorphology has mainly equipment for field geomorphological studies.
Technical contact: terrain-idyst@unil.ch
Main devices are the following:
| Fleet of Phantom 4 Pro Drones
| A Lidar Riegl VZ-6000
| Differential GPS Trimble R10 and R12i GNSS/GPS/Glonass, Swipos (4 systems)
| Total stations SOUTH
| Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)
| Geophone system
| Schmidt hammers PROCEQ
| IRIS instruments
| Portable OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) reader
| Flow meters
| Sieve analysis
| Tree increment corers
| Permanently in the field
The laboratory of geomorphology has mainly equipment for field geomorphological studies.
Technical contact: terrain-idyst@unil.ch
Main devices are the following:
The Phantom 4 Pro drones are lightweight and compact quadcopters equipped with high-resolution RGB cameras, providing superior image quality for mapping and monitoring. The fleet includes one RTK drone for precise georeferencing and one RTK-enabled drone equipped with a multispectral camera for vegetation and environmental analysis. These drones offer automated GPS waypoint navigation, enabling efficient and accurate data collection. With a flight time of up to 20 minutes and a maximum operational range of 7 km, they are well-suited for detailed landscape surveys. Applications include creating Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), vegetation indices, and orthophotos. |
Contact: terrain-idyst@unil.ch
Thanks to a long range laser pulse, the RIEGL VZ 6000 scanner can achieve three-dimensional data from a distance of up to 6 km. Its capacity to acquire more than 200’000 points per second allows the user to generate dense point clouds in affordable time. Given the precise digital elevation model that can be generated from these point clouds, this technology can be applied to monitor a wide range of landforms. Notably it can be used with snow and ice surfaces, unusual for many normal laser scanners. |
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Contact: Stuart.Lane@unil.ch
With the use of one reference station and one mobile receiver, and with post-processing, a precision in the order of one cm in XY coordinates can be obtained. Main applications are : 1) the monitoring of surface terrain motion (rock glaciers, debris-covered glacier, landslides, etc.), 2) the measurement of ground control points for the creation of digital elevation models from aerial and terrestrial imagery, and 3) the measurement of high precision topographic profiles. Simultaneous use of combined satellite systems allows use of our equipment in mountain regions where sky coverage can be restricted. |