Research

Transportation Lab

This lab is equipped with mobile stations and the only continuous monitoring GPS station in Lebanon (LAUG), which is part of the UNAVCO consortium in the United States, and the International GPS Service.

By conducting numerous field exercises using the tools at hand in this lab, students grasp the basic principles of surveying. Students gather field data, then carry out the reduction and calculation of the data in the lab room.

Other activities carried out in this lab include: collecting and modifying topographic maps, preparing digitized and GIS referenced maps with related features, DGPS measurements, presenting a general overview of geography, population, climate, water resources, water flows, dams, wastewater, water withdrawals, irrigation and drainage, on maps, survey and collect various data, and analyzing that data.

Videos 

Transportation Lab Video