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The project maintains permanent facilities in the field at Angkor at the Robert Christie University of Sydney Research Centre, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Most of the facilties are at the University of Sydney, and in particular the Madsen building, where our project relies on the considerable resources of the School of Geosciences and of Arts eResearch, which is the best equipped facility for archaeological computing in Australia.

Specialist resources available in the Sydney area include:

Software

  • Specialist remote sensing and photogrammetric software including ENVI, AsterDTM, ERMapper, Idrisi, and eCognition
  • Full ESRI GIS site license, also MapInfo GIS
  • TimeMap software for time-enabled GIS visualisation and analysis
  • 3D Studio Max for virtual reconstruction of archaeological sites

Hardware

  • Two backpack 8 channel GPS units, a Trimble Pro-XR and a Trimble Pro-XL (the former with real-time correction antenna)
  • Two Trimble GeoExplorer handheld GPS units
  • Advantage GPS-linked Laser rangefinder
  • A Trimble GeoXT GPS/PDA
  • A number of Compaq PDAs with Garmin Bluetooth GPS
  • A number of Garmin e-Trex handheld GPS
  • Total stations for topographic surveying
  • HP Designjet 755CM A0 (36") colour plotter

Laboratories

  • Arts eResearch
  • Environmental Chemistry, Microscopy and Stable Isotope labs used for sediment analysis, palynology and other purposes
  • Malvern MS2000 Laser Diffraction particle size analyser
  • Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources soil and sediment labs

Available External Facilities

  • Macintosh Centre for Quaternary Dating, University of Sydney
  • Electron Microscope Unit, University of Sydney
  • Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Institute for Nuclear Geophysiology, ANSTO

Written by Damian Evans on Friday, 24 June 2005.
Last Updated by Martin King on Tuesday, 19 June 2012