Facilities


For equipment availability and booking you must email Tony Or Chris: CRSSIS_Equipment@gpem.uq.edu.au


Hardware: Computing - Software
  • Dedicated instrumentation lab-space and wet-dry lab share with the Physical Geography group (Rm 523, Chamberlain bldg).
  • ASD-Field Spec UV/VNIR calibrated field spectrometer with optics for measurement of radiance, irradiance and reflectance (350-1050nm) in terrestrial and submarine environments (10m underwater fibre-optic cable) - Tony or Chris
  • ASD-Field Spec Full Range VIS-NIR-SWIR calibrated field spectrometer with optics for measurement of radiance, irradiance and reflectance (400- 2500nm) in terrestrial environments - Tony or Chris
  • TriOS Ramses underwater irradiance (300 - 800nm) spectrometer and data logger - Chris
  • Underwater-Spec, consisting of an Ocean Optics USB-2000 spectrometer, connected to a battery and PDA unit in a small hand-held housing with digital camera mount and fibre-optic cable for measurements. Able to be used to depths of 50m. - Chris
  • Calibrated Exotech 100C field radiometer (TM, MSS, SPOT XS bands) , palmtop data collection PC and A/D data collection card - Tony or Chris
  • Spectralon field (25cm x 25cm) and lab (12.5cm x 12.5cm and 5cm x 5cm) calibration panels - Tony or Chris
  • Sony P9 Digital camera and underwater housing with detachable wide-angle lens - Chris
  • Field calibration targets (9m x 9m black and white panels) for terrestrial and aquatic work. - Chris
  • ABC Technology Laser ranging system for measurement of tree height - Tony or Chris
  • TRAC (Tracing Radiation and Architecture of Canopies) hand-held instrument for measuring photosynthetic photon flux density and estimating canopy gap fraction and leaf area indices (LA) - Tony
  • 2 x Lowell-Pro Halogen Standard light source for Laboratory Calibration - Tony
  • ADAR-1000 multi-spectral airborne digital camera system consisting of a Kodak DCS-460 camera system, coupled with inflight targeting video, GPS, data capture and control PC, internal and external mount (flown in planes with and without camera ports). External mount system applies to Cessna 172-RG. This system is jointly operated with Northern Territory University. - Tony or Chris
  • 10 x Garmin GPS 12 and 76 receivers - Glen
  • Field vegetation sampling equipment - Glen
  • Field water quality sampling equipment - Glen
  • Instrumented pontoon for use in inshore waters with: ASD Spectrometer, underwater video camera, depth sounder and water quality quality sampling probe (pH, turbidity, dissolved O2, salinity) - Glen
  • 3 x Portable meteorological recording stations - Glen
  • Cimel sun photometer and portable hand held sun photometer - Tony
  • 3 x CANON AA540 Digital camera and 1 x underwater housing with detachable wide-angle lens - Chris
  • Handheld echosounder
  • Garmin Map76 GPS with nautical charts - Chris
  • Drybag for GPS's, marine slates, marine reels, underwater torches - Chris
    Computing:
    • Three Computer Labs
      - 30 PCs dedicated GIS/RS Lab
      - 20+ PCs General Lab
      - 15 PCs Postgraduate Lab
    • multiple A4 and one A3 flatbed Scanners
    • multiple Colour Laser Printers, A4 and A3
    • access to Digitizing Tablets, including one A0 tablet
    • large format inkjet printer (HP3000), can print larger than A0
    • access to the High Performance Computing Facility (UQ HPC)
    Software:
    • ESRI site license, including ArcGIS
    • Beta site for Erdas Imagine
    • Beta site for ENVI/IDL
    • Definiens eCognition Professional (5 seats)
    • Atmospheric correction and radiative transfer models (Modtran, Hitran, ATREM, FLAASH)
    • IDRISI
    • Sigma-0 (JPL SAR software)
    • HYPEX (hyperspectral / atmospheric correction code)
    • Fragstats
    • Stella
    • Matlab
    • Primer and Statistica