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Our aerial mapping capability just received a major upgrade. We can now survey up to 10–20 km²/day with exceptional vegetation pe*******on, producing the highest-quality bare-earth DEMs we've ever delivered.

This is a significant step forward for a range of applications: revealing the subtle micro-terrain of archaeological sites, providing large-scale topographic surfaces for geophysical data corrections, and delivering precise reality capture across complex landscapes.

The story continues to go global... here's a great write-up of our big discovery at Margam Country Park in Smithsonian Magazine.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-detected-the-largest-stand-alone-ancient-roman-villa-ever-unearthed-in-wales-180988032/

We’re proud once again to support Cardiff University’s MSc in Applied Environmental (Engineering) Geology.

A huge congratulations to Carly Bennett, winner of this year’s TerraDat Prize for Best Masters Project. Her work stood out for its relevance and practical impact—exactly the kind of applied thinking this course has championed for decades.

It’s with some regret that this year marks the end of the programme. At a time when the industry urgently needs skilled engineering geologists, the closure of such a valuable course is a real loss—for students, employers, and the future of our profession. Over the years, we’ve had the privilege of working with and hiring exceptional Cardiff graduates, and we know the calibre they bring.

That said, we remain optimistic and look forward to supporting Cardiff University in its plans to launch a revised and related programme in the future. The need for applied geoscience expertise has never been greater.

In these challenging times for higher education, we encourage fellow alumni and industry partners to step forward—through mentoring, project supervision, and offering industrial experience—to help shape and sustain the next generation of geoscience professionals.

Finally, a heartfelt thank you to Peter Brabham, who not only taught me, my co-founders, and many members of the TerraDat UK Ltd. team, but has continued to inspire and support young geoscientists with his trademark energy and humour. His contribution to this course—and to the profession—can’t be overstated.

An Earthquake of Emotion in Oviedo...

Geophysicists from TerraDat UK Ltd.'s Spanish office placed twelve seismometers around the city of Oviedo to monitor a football match between Real Oviedo and Mirandés.

Alemão Chaira's decisive goal and the final whistle caused detectable tremors in response to the crowd's celebrations.

These short-lived but intense events produced frequencies between 1.5 Hz and 3.5 Hz "typical of crowd noise, jumps and cheers"

Peter Brabham joined us today—for the second day of fieldwork with Cowbridge School’s A-level Geology students, as part of our STEM Partnership supported by The Royal Society.

Pete first introduced TerraDat co-founders Nick Russill and Rob McDonald to geophysics over 35 years ago as students of Cardiff University, so it was a reunion in the field—this time helping inspire the next generation.

We explored the Thaw Valley using geophysical techniques to investigate its origins as a classic misfit stream in a disproportionately large valley. Today’s focus was on acquiring subsurface data to help map the depth to bedrock and gather evidence supporting the glacial outwash theory.