Geoptic will attend the Inter-Disciplinary Underground Science and Technology (i-DUST) conference, held in Apt, France, from 3 to 5 November 2026. The conference brings together the Earth and environmental sciences, physics and engineering communities that work with underground laboratories, and Geoptic will present advances in its muon imaging work to that audience.
Why underground science matters to Geoptic
Geoptic grew out of university research, and muon imaging has always sat between disciplines: particle physics provides the measurement, geoscience and engineering provide the questions. Conferences like i-DUST, run alongside the Low Background Noise Underground Laboratory (LSBB), are where those communities compare methods, instruments and results.
Muon imaging measures naturally occurring cosmic-ray muons after they pass through rock, soil and structures. The measurements reveal density variations in the subsurface without drilling or artificial radiation — the same physics that underground laboratories rely on for their own low-background environments.
What Geoptic will present
Geoptic designs, builds and deploys muon imaging systems in the field, from large planar detectors for tunnel surveys to slimline borehole strings that image deep subsurface volumes from the surface. At i-DUST, Geoptic will present the advances behind that field delivery: detector hardware that survives demanding deployments, survey methods that hold up under real access and timing constraints, and the data validation needed before density results can inform decisions.
Field delivery brings challenges that underground laboratories know well — access, positioning, timing and background understanding — and Geoptic looks forward to comparing notes with the instrumentation and systems engineering communities at the conference.
Meet Geoptic in Apt
If you are attending i-DUST 2026 and want to discuss muon imaging for subsurface characterisation, monitoring or underground laboratory applications, get in touch with our team before or during the event.