Renard Centre of Marine Geology
Department of Geology, Universiteit Gent

  Research infrastructure

High and very-high resolution reflection seismic equipment

In-house developed "Centipede" sparker
SIG sparker
Geopulse 3.5 kHz subbottom profiler
Seistec boomer-receiver system
In-house developed "VHR-3D" seismic array
Delph Seismic acquisition system (IXSEA)
Geode 24-channel seismograph (Geometrics)

Software:
ProMax (Halliburton)
RadExPro (DECO Geophysical)
Kingdom Suite (SMT)
Fledermaus (QPS)
ArcGIS (ESRI)
   

 

Side-scan sonar

Klein 3000 side-scan sonar

Software:
Sonar Pro (L-3)
ISIS (L-3)
Sonar Scope (Ifremer)

 

Multibeam swath-bathymetry echosounder

Seabeam 1050 (50 kHz)
Octans motion sensor

Software:
Hydrostar online (L-3)
HDP post; HDP edit (L-3)
Qinsy (QPS)

 

Lake-coring equipment

Uwitec coring platform
deep-water (300 m) piston and Livingston corer
bob corer

   
 

Core analysis facilities

Geotek multi-sensor core logger
Malvern
Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer

 

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