Publication KNGMG | Geo.brief | November 2025

Field trip to Morocco featuring in the Geo.brief of November 2025.

The Geo.brief is a joint publication of the KNGMG and the NWO domain of Exact and Natural Sciences (ENW) and is published 8 times per calendar year (ISSN 1876-231X).

https://www.kngmg.nl/geo-brief/

Outreach | TUDelft Science Day | October 2025

Drone booth: Displaying the Fleet and the obstacle run.

130 wanna be pilots (5-12yo) tried to fly our DJI Neo trhough an obstacle run in the drone cage and got this badge to show for their success

Outreach | TUDelft Science Day | November 2024

Displaying the fleet of drones from the 'Earth, Climate & Technology Flight Office'.

OSDARA: Platform for drone operators, owners, and pilots of the TUDelft.

Outreach | Applied Geology 3D geo-archive | since 2013

3D models, outcrops, well cores, and rock hand samples captured/developed by geoscientists of the Applied Geology Section at the TUDelft.

Visit our Sketchfab page here

Organisation | Drone Flight Office of the education program | since 2023

EC&T Flight Office

Drone data acquisition is nowadays routinely used in geo-scientific missions in the wildest sense (geo = study of the Earth) and resulted in an increase of the number of drones in our faculty. Therefore, both departments running the education program have joined forces in the creation of a common flight office, the “EC&T flight office”, which include all assets (drones and ground equipment), drone pilots (European licenses), drone owners, and drone operators (maintenance of the fleet, insurance, flight schedule, knowhow for data acquisition and post-processing, etc…).

Our current fleet of drones includes 8 drones (from a DJI Matrice 300 capable of carrying a payload of ~3kg, 2 Mavic pros, and down to two DJI NEO of about 135g), over 10 pilots, 4 drone owners, and 3 drone operators. All drones are marked with the RDW operator number, as per European regulations.