Field laboratories

Welcome to the field laboratories

Click on the description to contact the person who can provide more information about the respective machine!

Geophysical lab

  • STING R1 Resistivity Imaging

    A geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures from electrical resistivity measurements made at the surface by putting electrodes in the ground. Composed of an automated 56-channel system from AGI, with max 10 meter electrode spacing. Related software available for 2D and 3D inversions.

    prof.dr. M. van der Meijde (Mark)
    Full Professor
  • GPR

    GPR - PULSE EKKO

    A geophysical method that uses radarpulses to image the subsurface. GPR uses high-frequency radio waves. A GPR transmitter emits electromagnetic energy into the ground. When the energy encounters a buried object or a boundary between materials having different permittivities, it may be reflected or refracted or scattered back to the surface.Equipped with a 50, 100 and 500 MHz antenna.

    prof.dr. M. van der Meijde (Mark)
    Full Professor
    W.H. Bakker MSc (Wim)
    Lecturer
  • Gamma-ray spectrometer

    Exploranium Gamma-ray spectrometer is an instrument for measuring the distribution (or spectrum) of the intensity of gamma radiation. Our spectrometer is measuring in 256 bands, with automatic analysis for K, U, and Th.

    prof.dr. M. van der Meijde (Mark)
    Full Professor
  • Magnetic susceptibility meter

    Magnetic susceptibility meter KT-10 from TerraPlus SM20 from GF Instruments is designed especially for field analysis and classification of rock types or drill core samples. Those measurements allow basic differentiation of rocks (diamagnetic, paramagnetic and ferromagnetic) and their precise susceptibility quantification.

    prof.dr. M. van der Meijde (Mark)
    Full Professor
    W.H. Bakker MSc (Wim)
    Lecturer
  • Time-domain EM

    Time-domain EM (TEM-FAST) is  geophysical tool for time-domain electromagnetic sounding. Will provide 1D measurements of varying conductivity with depth, when spatially repeated can deliver 3D subsurface models.

    prof.dr. M. van der Meijde (Mark)
    Full Professor
    W.H. Bakker MSc (Wim)
    Lecturer
  • EM31

    The EM31 - Geonics (and its family EM34, and EM38 systems) measure  the terrain conductivity, in phase response, and indirectly magnetic susceptibility of rock, soil, fill, pore fluids, and metal using frequency domain electromagnetic waves. The system has no datalogger connected to it.

    prof.dr. M. van der Meijde (Mark)
    Full Professor
    W.H. Bakker MSc (Wim)
    Lecturer

Environmental sensors lab

  • RAMSES hyperspectral radiometer

    RAMSES-ACC and RAMSES-ARC are  stand-alone highly integrated hyperspectral radiometers for the UV and/or VIS spectral range. Small size and very low power consumption make them suitable for hand-held and autonomous applications. The sensors are part of the RAMSES radiometer family, which is especially designed for combining precision hyperspectral light measurements with a maximum of flexibility

    dr.ir. S. Salama (Suhyb)
    Associate Professor


  • BBE FluoroProbe

    The bbe FluoroProbe is a highly sensitive instrument for the analysis of microalgae in the water. The submersible FluoroProbe quickly and reliably determines chlorophyll-a concentrations in situ and in real time by fluorescence measurement. Recorded data are displayed online or stored internally. The FluoroProbe discriminates algae classes even in complex mixtures due to the spectral properties of green algae, blue-greens (cyanobacteria), brown algae consisting of diatoms, dinoflagellates, chrysophytes, and cryptophytes. The use of the FluoroProbe replaces a considerable amount of laborious analytical work in the lab.

    dr.ir. S. Salama (Suhyb)
    Associate Professor


Field lab booking

The booking system is currently under maintenance.

To request field material, send an email to geoscience-laboratory-itc@utwente.nl .

For any questions or technical problems, please email the above email geosience-laboratory-itc@utwente.nl

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