Equipment

The following lists refer to equipment available to be shared according to the access rules defined by C4G [consult here]. Although a few of these scientific instruments can be used across the Geosciences, they are mainly used in the following disciplines:

• Geodesy [+]
• Geology [+] and Geochemistry [+]
• Geophysics:
  • Seismology [+]
  • Applied Geophysics [+]
  • Rock Mechanics [+]
  • Geomagnetism [+]
  • Paleomagnetism [+]
• Marine Geology [+]
• Remote Sensing [+]
• Georesources [+]
• Others [+]
  

+ GEODESY

Institutions: FCUP, IGOT, LNEG, UBI, UEVORA

• GNSS
  . Geodetic Systems (Septentrio, Leica, Topcon)
  . Topographic Systems
• Total Stations
• Gravimeters
• Drones
  . LiDAR
  . RGB Cameras
• Accessoires
  . Tripods
  . External Radios

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+ GEOLOGY

Institutions: FCUL, FCUP, FEUP, IGOT, LNEG, UA, UBI

Rock sample preparation

• Hydraulic press
• Isogranulator
• Mills: tungsten carbide jaw mill, agate ring mill, tungsten ring mill, planetary agate jaw mill
• Saws and cutting equipment: diamand saws and precision diamond saws, precision micrometric and surface polishing cutting and wear equipment, bore and rock core cutting machine
• Mettler high precision digital scales
• Sample drying oven

Mineral Separation

• Electromagnetic separators

Petrographic image visualization, recording and analysis systems

• Leica binocular microscope
• Leica microscope
• Nikon microscope with NIS-A granulometric module
• Leica reflectance light microscope with image analysis
• Leitz Ortolux II microscope
• Leica HD Digital Camera and LG Monitor

Characterization of Geological Materials

• Microtermometry: Linkam heating-freezing microthermometric stage and Chaimexca freezing stages
• Spectrometry: LabRaman spectrometer equipped with a 632.8 nm laser, LabRAM Microscope XploRATM equipped with a 532 nm laser, Radionuclide identifier with germanium detector
• Magnetic susceptibility meter
• Cathodoluminescence Lumic

Granulometric Analysis

• Granulometry microanalyser Sedigraph, Laser diffraction particle analyzer Malver Mastersizer 2000

Radon

• Detector HPGe Model GC 2518 – Camberra
• NanoReader Model v1.0 – Radosys
• NanoBath Model v1.0 – Radosys
• Electronic Radon Instrumentation Model RAD7 – Durrige
• Continuous Radon Monitor Model 1029 – Sun Nuclear
• Electronic Radon Detector Monitor 2.2 – Ramon
• Handheld Digital Radiation Detector Inpector EXP – SE International
• Scintillation detectors Model 732-1 – LUDLUM
• 1 RD-200 and RDU-200 radon detector devices EDA Instruments Inc.

Sedimentology

• Hottes
• Drying and warming cabinet
• Laboratory stirrers
• Ultrasonic Baths

Coastal Geology

• Vibrocorer
• GPS Trimble Nomad
• Spectrophotometer CM700d

Hydrogeology

• Titrator Mettler G20
• Hanna multiparametric probes with GPS
• Water level sensors
• Water level meters (50 m and 300 m)
• Hydrometric current universal SEBA Hydrometrie
• Grunfos submersible pumps
• Eijkelkamp peristaltic pumps
• EM portable ultrasonic flowmeter
• GGUN-FL24 field fluorometer
• Starflow Doppler flow meter

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+ GEOCHEMISTRY

Institutions: FCUL, FCUP, FEUP, LNEG, UA

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+ SEISMOLOGY

Institutions: FCUL, IPMA, ISEL, UEVORA

• Short-period and broadband seismometers
• Dataloggers and nodes
• Short-period OBS network
• Acceloremeters

• Photovoltaic modules
• Solar controlers and batteries
• Mobile net
  
• Milling machine

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+ APPLIED GEOPHYSICS

Institutions: FCUL, FEUP, ISEL, IST, LNEG, UEVORA

Seismic

• Seismographs
• Short-period seismometer
• Downnhole seismic source
• Shear wave sources
• Accelerated weight-drop seismic source 250 kg
• Accelerated mass seismic source with electric elevation
• Dataloggers
• Cables with various takeouts
• Cables/scanners for geophones
• Vertical geophones [4 Hz, 10 Hz, 40 Hz, 50 Hz]
• Horizontal geophones [10 Hz, 40 Hz]
• 3C-geophones [10 Hz]

Geoelectric

• Resistivity meters
• Induced polarization
• Well-logging
• Electrical tomography system

Geoelectromagnetic

• Georadars
• Antenna for georadars: 100 MHz (monostatic/bistatic), 200 MHZ, 400 MHZ, 1600 MHz
• Antenna transport cart with tachometer
• Very low frequency electromagnetics
• Conductivity meter

Magnetic

• Portable magnetic susceptibility meter (KT-10 units)

Radiometric

• Gamma spectrometer

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+ ROCK MECHANICS

Institutions: FCUL, FCUP, ISEL, IST

• Laser particle analyser
• Fotogrametric station
• Rock discontinuity shear test system
• Cutting box
• Soils direct shear test
• Casagrande shells, penetration cone, Greenhouse et al.
• Vacuum chamber and pycnometers
• Soil-free expandability equipment
• Bishop type edometer modified for soil swell analysis
• 2000kN compression load frameSieve grain size analysis
• Grain size analysis by LASER diffraction
• Elastic wave measurement (rocks and concrete)
• Eletromagnetic detection system
• Ultrasonic monitoring system and AE recorder
• Uniaxial press
• Vacuum pump
• Optical microscope
• Triaxial Hoek cell
• Datalogger
• Pressure control system
• Linear variable displacement transducer
• Acoustic emission sensors – P wave & S wave
• Ultrasonic pulser-receiverX-Ray microtomograph
• Climatic corrosion chamber
• High pressure triaxial cell
• Hydraulic press and accessories
• Direct pull press
• Permeater for rocks under constant pressure
• Coreflooding system
• Equipment for sonic speed measurement by ultrasonic pulse transmission
• Axial and diametral deformations mesurement system

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+ GEOMAGNETISM

Institutions: FCUL, IPMA, UC

• DI-flux magnetometer of absolute observations
• Scalar Overhauser magnetometers
• Scalar proton magnetometers
• Scalar cesium vapour magnetometer
• Triaxial fluxgate magnetometer

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+ PALEOMAGNETISM

Institutions: FCUL, UC

• Spinner magnetometer
• Anhysteretic pulse magnetizer
• Alternating magnetic field demagnetizer
• Impulse magnetizer
• Thermal demagnetizer (home made)
• Magnetic susceptibility meter

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+ MARINE GEOLOGY

Institutions: IPMA

• SeisLab – Lab. of marine seismic reflection and bathymetry, includes:
  • Workstations equipped with software Radex Pro Seismic Processing and Landmark suite

• Ultra-high resolution multichannel seismic reflection spread: 1kJ pps, 24 channels, 200 tips sparker
• Sub-bottom profiler (parametric echosounder)
• Multibeam echosounder+SVP+Positioning system spreads
• STR SeaSpyder Telemetry underwater system, photo and video camera
• Valeport Sound Velocity Sensor & Profiler

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. REMOTE SENSING

Institutions: FCUL, IGOT, IST, LNEG, UBI

• GEOMODLAB – Lab. for remote sensing and geopgraphical analysis and modeling, includes:
  • Workstations for data processing and analysis

• Lidar Phoenix Scout
• Drones DJI (Phantom 3 Advanced, 4 and Matrice) and SenseFly (eBee, eBee Plus RTK)
• Multi-spectral, Photogrametric and RBG Cameras for drones: senseFly, Parrot, Zenmuse and Micasense

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+ GEORESOURCES

Institutions: FEUP, IST

• Atomic absorption spectrometer
• Double-beam spectrophotometer
• X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (+)
• Pressure leach reactor
• Radionuclide identifier with germanium detector
• Laser diffraction particle analyzer
• Gas chromatograph for columns with FID and TCD packaging
• Gas chromatograph with capillary columns for FID and ECD
• Flotation cell
• Climatic corrosion chamber

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+ Others

Institutions: IGOT, INESCTEC, LNEG

Generators; drilling equipment for bedrock ; soil auger;
Various weather sensors (temperature and pressure) and dataloggers;
Servers

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