Facilities & Equipment

Hardware

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

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:

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 backed up nightly.

SARL servers in the Hill Center at Vanderbilt University — SARL servers in the Vanderbilt Hill Center

Field Equipment

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 (2 units)
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
DJI Air 3s
DJI Mini 3

Portable XRF Analyzer

Bruker Tracer 5i pXRF

Software

ESRI ArcGIS Desktop · ESRI ArcGIS Pro · QGIS · GRASS · Google Earth Pro · Autodesk AutoCAD · Agisoft Metashape · Cloud Compare · Trimble Pathfinder Office · R/RStudio · MS Office · Adobe Creative Cloud