Available physical facilities, SOFTWARE/Techniques and Equipment
(a) Available physical facilities
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Office space for participating staff and research assistants
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GIS and Remote Sensing Facilities
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Geophysics Facilities
(b) Available equipment
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GY150 rotary drilling rig with conventional soil sampling and testing tools
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I Tomography equipment (Syscal R1 with switch 72)
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1 Resistivity sounding instrument (Syscal R2)
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1 Set Seismograph for seismic refraction, reflection and multichannel analysis of surface waves.
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Water depth meters (Dipper line)
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Electrical Conductivity, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), pH, Temperature Meter
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2 HP desk top computers and 5 laptops
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Digital cameras
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1 HP Colour printer and scanner
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2 external hard disks – 1 TB each
(c) Available software/techniques
Geophysics:
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A 2D finite-difference/finite element inversion program (Loke and Barker (1996)) for resistivity tomography interpretation.
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Interpretation software for Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) technique for aquifer delineation e.g. Interpex X1D, AGI 1D EarthImager,
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Visual data software
Hydrogeology:
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Public domain Processing Modflow and Modflow 2000 software for groundwater modelling technique.
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Ground Water for Windows (GWW).
Lithostratigraphy:
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Fence diagrams
Remote Sensing and GIS
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ArcGIS 9.3 software
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ENVI 4.4
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ERDAS IMAGINE 9.1
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ILWIS 3.31
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Geomatica
Hydrogeochemistry:
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Trilinear diagrams
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Vector diagrams
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Pattern diagrams (after Hem 1962)
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Schoeller semilogarithmic diagrams
Geological mapping
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GPS Devices
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Palm computer with Bluetooth GPS
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Geological hammers, Brunton compasses, stereoscopes
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Structural analytical plotting software
(d) Transport
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I Four-wheel Landrover 110 TDi
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1 Four-wheel Pajero
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Mitsubishi Canter 3.3