Remote sensing data from unmanned airborne platforms are increasingly used in industry, public sector, and science. Geological applications include but are not limited to high-resolution photographic images, photogrammetric 2.5D modelling, spectral imaging, or laserscanning. The course will teach the necessary skills to plan, setup, and carry out drone flights for photogrammetric data acquisition.

This field course focuses on characterizing and classifying rocks and rock masses in the field as done in preliminary and advanced stages of engineering geological site assessments.

This introductory course starts from a descriptions of the behavior and phenomena of soils and rocks under near surface loading conditions and their key geotechnical properties. Lab and field methods for the characterization of soils, rocks and rock masses are introduced. Finally practical aspects of ground engineering, including tunneling and landslide hazards are presented.

This course introduces students to geotechnical, geophysical, surveying and (remote) sensing methods used in characterizing, developing and monitoring engineering project sites. Strategies, measurements, tools and analyses are described that are relevant to determining the geologic conditions at a site as well as deformations that occur under natural or construction conditions.

This course is run as block course on Tu 10th of June (8:15-12;00, NO F39), Th 12th of June (whole day, field work in Sargans) and Fr 13th of June (8:15-12:00 + 13:15-15:00, NO F39). The course gives an introduction to digital mapping in geosciences from data collection to the final map construction, focusing on the application of different digital mapping tools to produce a geological map.