Equipments Details
Description
Our Facility operates a fleet of manned and unmanned aircraft equipped with state of the art sensors to support research and teaching across the School and beyond.
Airborne research and survey techniques are enjoying major growth in activity and interest.
Over recent years unmanned aircraft have opened up the field to a vastly wider audience, creating entirely new types of data product and simultaneously driving the cost, size and weight of sensors and systems down. This in turn is generating exciting new opportunities for high-quality data acquisition from small, low cost manned aircraft.
We are able to support our researchers and students with direct flight operations, equipment loan, training and specialist platform development and sensor integration.
Airborne research and survey techniques are enjoying major growth in activity and interest.
Over recent years unmanned aircraft have opened up the field to a vastly wider audience, creating entirely new types of data product and simultaneously driving the cost, size and weight of sensors and systems down. This in turn is generating exciting new opportunities for high-quality data acquisition from small, low cost manned aircraft.
We are able to support our researchers and students with direct flight operations, equipment loan, training and specialist platform development and sensor integration.
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Investigating coastal dune erosion dynamics across Lundin Links golf course using high-resolution UAV imagery
Nichol, C., 23 Oct 2025, 64 p.Research output: Thesis › Master's Thesis
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Topographic and Vegetative Controls on Manganese Release: A Comparative Study of Trace Metal Mobilization in Streams of Loch Bradan, Scotland
Nichol, C., 23 Oct 2025Research output: Thesis › Master's Thesis
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail: spectral trends as a measure of ecological change in the Arctic
Nichol, C., 14 Oct 2025Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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How can technology help improve the monitoring and protection of seabirds in various environments, focussing initially on the challenge of monitoring puffins above and below ground?
Nichol, C. (Principal Investigator)
7/08/25 → 31/07/27
Project: Research
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Use of advanced technologies for pre and post peatland restoration
Bell, N. (Principal Investigator) & Nichol, C. (Principal Investigator)
1/08/25 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
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Assessing the robustness of mixed species planting as a drought adaptation measure during early stage establishment - an experimental approach
Meir, P. (Principal Investigator) & Nichol, C. (Co-investigator)
1/04/25 → 31/03/28
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Much ado about puffin: Tech collaboration will help experts count iconic but vulnerable species
13/10/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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University of Edinburgh project gets £60,000 to restore peatlands in the West Highlands of Scotland
10/10/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Peatland monitoring in Scotland secures major grant boost
4/10/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research