Rental Equipment
Borrow measuring gear for your field studies
A pool of field equipment is available at the Department of Geography. The equipment was financed from student funds and is available to all students and staff for teaching and research activities. If you would like to borrow equipment, please contact the responsible research assistant by email via the service address gelaendegeraete@geographie.uni-muenchen.de
You can find an overview of the available devices here:
Field sampling devices (as of July 2024)
- Impact hammer (14 pieces)
- Pulling tool (2 pieces)
- Pürckhauer with pulling handle (13 pieces)
- Spade (9 pieces)
- Pickaxe (1 piece)
- Folding spade (11 pieces)
- Spade/spatula (12 pieces)
- Garden shears (8 pieces)
- Levelling ruler (9 pieces)
- Penetrometer (1 piece)
- Precision spring scales for soil (4 pieces)
- Sieve (2mm) (4 pieces)
- Visocolor floor case with photometer (new) (7 units)
- Pick (2 pieces)
- Hellige pH meter (19 pieces)
- Hydrochloric acid (10-%) (on request in the laboratory)
- Soil profile measuring tape 2m (2 pieces)
- Stinging cylinders (in various sizes) (50 pieces)
- Manual "Meadows and alpine plants" (10 pieces)
- Manual "Trees and shrubs" (10 pieces)
- Munsell Soil Color Charts (8 pieces)
- Soil mapping guide (18 pieces)
- Geologist's compass (9 pieces)
- Geologist's hammer (20 pieces)
- Flat chisel (15 pieces)
- Safety goggles (on request)
- Mohs hardness tester (5-9) (4 units)
- Hand magnifiers (17.5x) (3 pieces)
- Hand-held magnifiers (8x) (15 units)
- Gamma-Scout radiation meter (radioactivity) (3 pieces)
- Manual "Which stone is that?" (10 pieces)
- Manual "Pebbles in the Alpine foothills" (9 pieces)
- pH meter (6 pieces)
- Conductivity meter (5 pieces)
- Oxygen meter (5 pieces)
- Aquamerk compact laboratory (5 pieces)
- Jens dipstick (1 piece)
- Flow meter with rod (precise) (5 pieces)
- Flow meter with rod (high precision) (2 pieces)
- 1m aluminum ruler (5 pieces)
- Bucket (4 pieces)
- Waders 6x40/41, 4x44/45 (10 pieces)
- Helley-Smith bed load collector (1 piece)
- Differential GPS (Trimble R2-GNSS) (1 piece)
- Magellan ProMark3 (differential GPS) (1 piece)
- GPS (26 units)
- GPS Montana 650t (touchscreen) (3 units)
- WILD NA20 level (2 units)
- Laser distance meter (8 units)
- Theodolite (5 units)
- Tripod for theodolite (8 units)
- Prism (4 pieces)
- Prism pole (4 pieces)
- Wooden alignment rod (25 pieces)
- TOP 1:50,000 Munich (6 pieces)
- TOP 1:25,000 Munich (6 pieces)
- Bearing compass (19 pieces)
- Tape measure 50m (10 pieces)
- Hand slope meter (optical) (5 pcs.)
- Altimeter barometric (7 pieces)
- PCE AU20 centrifugal psychrometer (3 units)
- Cup anemometer (3 pieces)
- Aspiration psychrometer (4 pieces)
- Global radiation sensor (4 pieces)
- Temperature/humidity sensor (for universal measuring device) (5 units)
- IR temperature measuring device (3 pieces)
- Ozone test strip tubes (on request)
- Snow hydrology set (3 pieces)
- Snow maps with grid (14 pieces)
- Probes (different lengths) (14 pieces)
- Penetration thermometer (6 pieces)
- Aluminum avalanche shovel (14 pieces)
- back country snow-tube with caps and spring balance for SWE from snow metrics, incl. 2nd black bag (2 pieces)
- small metal snow tube with caps (1 piece)
- Spring balance 300g from Pesola (1 piece)
- pocket magnifier 17.5x (3 pieces)
- waterproof digital thermometer (7 pieces)
- black fabric folders from snow metrics with the following contents: (2 pieces)
- pocket magnifier 17.5x (2 pieces)
- slope inclinometer (1 piece)
- Spatula (2 pieces)
- Meter stick (2 pieces)
- Snow saws (3 pieces)
- Measuring cards (2mm grid) (2 pieces)
- Media case (mobile video conferencing set) (2 pieces)
- Recording and transcription software (f4transkript) (1 item)
- Communication system for excursions (1 microphone + 15 receivers) (33 units)
- MAXQDA license (7 pieces)
- Ipad (8th generation (2020)) (9 pieces)
- Digital camera EOS60D, standard lens 17-55/2.8, neoprene case (2 pieces)
- Camera accessories: Telephoto lens 70-300/4-5.6 (1 piece)
- Camera accessories: Wide-angle lens 8-16/4.5-5.6 (1 piece)
- Camera accessories: Macro 60/2.8 (1 piece)
- Camera accessories: Tripod and tripod head (1 piece)
- Camera accessories: Flash (1 piece)
- Camera accessories: Backpack (1 piece)
- Camera accessories: GPS receiver (3 pieces)
- Binoculars 8x32 (2 pieces)
- Voltcraft Charge Manager 2024 (2 pieces)
- Battery chargers for Micro and Mignon (2 pieces)
- Battery charger for 9V block (2 pieces)
- Sound level meter (1 piece)
- Safety helmets (20 pieces)
- Work gloves (on request)
- Safety vests (on request)
- Rechargeable batteries (9 V block; AA; AAA) (on request)
- Clipboards (66 pieces)
- Handcart (3 pieces)
- IR thermal imaging camera (on request)