Equipments

Available physical facilities, SOFTWARE/Techniques and Equipment

(a) Available physical facilities

  • Office space for participating staff and research assistants

  • GIS and Remote Sensing Facilities

  • Geophysics Facilities

(b) Available equipment

  • GY150 rotary drilling rig with conventional soil sampling and testing tools

  • I Tomography equipment (Syscal R1 with switch 72)

  • 1 Resistivity sounding instrument (Syscal R2)

  • 1 Set Seismograph for seismic refraction, reflection and multichannel analysis of surface waves.

  • I Set down-hole shear wave testing equipment

  • Water depth meters (Dipper line)

  • Electrical Conductivity, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), pH, Temperature Meter

  • 2 HP desk top computers and 5 laptops

  • Digital cameras

  • 1 HP Colour printer and scanner

  • 2 external hard disks – 1 TB each

(c) Available software/techniques

Geophysics:

  • A 2D finite-difference/finite element inversion program (Loke and Barker (1996)) for resistivity tomography interpretation.

  • Interpretation software for Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) technique for aquifer delineation e.g. Interpex X1D, AGI 1D EarthImager,

  • Visual data software

Hydrogeology:

  • Public domain Processing Modflow and Modflow 2000 software for groundwater modelling technique.

  • Ground Water for Windows (GWW).

Lithostratigraphy:

  • Fence diagrams

Remote Sensing and GIS

  • ArcGIS 9.3 software

  • ENVI 4.4

  • ERDAS IMAGINE 9.1

  • ILWIS 3.31

  • Geomatica

Hydrogeochemistry:

  • Trilinear diagrams

  • Vector diagrams

  • Pattern diagrams (after Hem 1962)

  • Schoeller semilogarithmic diagrams

Geological mapping

  • GPS Devices

  • Palm computer with Bluetooth GPS

  • Geological hammers, Brunton compasses, stereoscopes

  • Structural analytical plotting software

(d) Transport

  • I Four-wheel Landrover 110 TDi

  • 1 Four-wheel Pajero

  • Mitsubishi Canter 3.3