High-Endurance UAV for Monitoring Calving Glaciers: Application to the Inglefield Bredning and Eqip Sermia, Greenland

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Guillaume Jouvet, Yvo Weidmann, Eef van Dongen, Martin P. Lüthi, Andreas Vieli, Jonathan C. Ryan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
• Subjects: unmanned aerial vehicle; structure-from-motion photogrammetry; calving glaciers; ice dynamics; remote sensing; Science; Q; Greenland; Eqip Sermia; Inglefield Bredning; glacier; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00206; https://doaj.org/article/276798820e444c4cbf62403f04e71b0e

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry has become an important tool for generating multi-temporal, high-resolution ortho-images and digital elevation models (DEMs) to study glaciers and their dynamics. In polar regions, the roughness of the terrain, strong katabatic winds, unreliability of com...