Facilities and instrumentation

SARL hardware

Workstations

SARL houses 12 workstations, including advanced systems with up to 384 GB of RAM, high end GPUs, and dual CPU configurations.

Servers

SARL maintains servers in the Hill Center, Vanderbilt’s enterprise computational facility. They are connected to the campus network via 10GBS fiber.

SARL servers include:

SARL servers 5 and 6 in the Hill Center

24 bay 4U rack server with 256TB of RAID6 storage

8-Bay 1U rack server with 144 TB of RAID5 storage

Dell PowerEdge R 7525 with dual AMD 7313 16 core processors, 32 GB RAM, and 2 x 2 TB SSD (RAID1).

Data is archived nightly

Tablets

8 iPad Pros

1 Android tablet

Total Station

Nikon NPL-322

2 Prisms (1 large, 1 peanut)

Prism poles

Tripods

RTK GNSS/DGPS

Sokkia GRX2 base and rover

Topcon FC-500 data collector

Emlid Reach RS (4 units)

Emlid Reach RS2 (1 unit)

Trimble Geoexplorer XT (1)

Geophysical survey

GSSI Utility Scan Ground Penetrating Radar

Bartington Fluxgate gradiometer

UAVs/drones

DJI Phantom 4

DJI Phantom 4 Pro

DJI Mavic Pro

Two (2) 3DR Solos

Custom fabricated fixed wing UAV

Portable XRF Analyzer

Bruker Tracer 5i pXRF

Software

ESRI ArcGIS Desktop

ESRI ArcGISPro (all workstations)

ESRI ArcPad/ArcPad Studio

ENVI + IDL (one floating license)

ENVI Machine Learning

QGIS

GRASS

Google Earth Pro

Autodesk AutoCAD 2015 (one workstation)

Agisoft Metashape

Cloud Compare

Trimble Pathfinder Office

JMP statistics

R statistics

MS Office

Adobe Creative Cloud