Hydrologic & Geomorphic Field
Equipment
at the Geography Department
University South
Carolina
Field
Equipment in the
Earth
Surface Patterns & Processes
Lab
Complex:
- Topographic surveying equipment:
Sokkia
reflectorless total station - Bluetooth enabled
- Carlson data collecter and surveying software - Bluetooth
enabled
- Paired reflectors
- Laptop PC with surveying software - Bluetooth
enabled
- David White Transit (construction grade) with tripod
- Rotary laser level
- Surveying rods, fiberglass tapes, stakes, pins, etc.
- Soil sampling: augers, slip-spoon probes, shovels, etc.
- Munsell color chart
- Double-ring infiltrometer
- Campbell CR500 4-channel data logger
- Single-channel data loggers
- Depth sensors based on Motorola MD5010 pressure
transducers
- Marsh-McBirney current meter, wading rod, Compaq portable PC.
- Stream-gauge equipment: data loggers, depth recorders, stilling
wells, etc.
- Denrochronology: increment borers for coring trees; densitometer for
canopy cover.
- Brass sieves - 8" and 5" diameter sets
- Misc: rain gages, water-sample bottles, hand tools, back packs, soil
thermometer, bulk density samplers,
etc.
Other Field
Equipment Available
(in Department):
- Two Trimble
Pro XRs for differential GPS surveys
- Includes batteries, backpack, antennae
- Second Sokkia reflectorless total station with tripod &
reflectors (same model as above)
- Hyperspectral
radiometer
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Last Modified: 11/15/2009 Allan
James (AJames@sc.edu)
