Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles in Antarctic environmental research

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Tovar-Sánchez, Antonio, Román, Alejandro, Roque-Atienza, David, Navarro, Gabriel
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Deception Island; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8571321/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34741078; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01228-z

Antarctica plays a fundamental role in the Earth's climate, oceanic circulation and global ecosystem. It is a priority and a scientific challenge to understand its functioning and responses under different scenarios of global warming. However, extreme environmental conditions, seasonality and i...