New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and & Monitoring 2025

On November 17-20 2025, UC Berkeley Faculty and collaborators will be offering again a short course on "New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring". The course was offered in 2021, 2022, and 2023 and was very well received with a total of 410 participants from 34 US States and 42 countries. You can review the participants' feedback about the course here.

The November course will be offered in four half-day meetings. This updated course includes a review of earlier material and explores the latest technologies shaping geo-infrastructure design, maintenance, operation, and risk management. Technologies to be discussed are sensor-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or drones), 3D model creation using optical (Structure-from-Motion) and LiDAR, infrared and multispectral sensing, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), wireless sensing network fundamentals, ShapeArray Accelerometers and distributed sensing using fiber optics. The instructors (Soga, Kayen, Johnson and Zekkos) have significant expertise in the technologies presented and will outline the principles of operation and the advantages and disadvantages, as well as share examples of projects where these technologies have been successfully implemented.

To accommodate participants in all time zones, recorded lectures will be made available online through a dedicated intranet for one month following the completion of each course module.

More information and registration for this course can be found here: https://www.geoengfdn.org/geomonitoring.