UAVs as remote sensing platform in glaciology: Present applications and future prospects

A Bhardwaj, L Sam, FJ Martín-Torres, R Kumar - Remote sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Satellite remote sensing is an effective way to monitor vast extents of global glaciers and
snowfields. However, satellite remote sensing is limited by spatial and temporal resolutions …

UAVs for science in Antarctica

P Pina, G Vieira - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing is a very powerful tool that has been used to identify, map and monitor
Antarctic features and processes for nearly one century. Satellite remote sensing plays the …

Applications of UAVs in civil infrastructure

WW Greenwood, JP Lynch, D Zekkos - Journal of infrastructure …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have become popular tools for practitioners
and researchers alike. Recent years have seen a significant increase in UAV uses for many …

LiDAR remote sensing of the cryosphere: Present applications and future prospects

A Bhardwaj, L Sam, A Bhardwaj… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The cryosphere consists of frozen water and includes lakes/rivers/sea ice, glaciers, ice
caps/sheets, snow cover, and permafrost. Because highly reflective snow and ice are the …

Application of UAV BVLOS remote sensing data for multi-faceted analysis of Antarctic ecosystem

A Zmarz, M Rodzewicz, M Dąbski, I Karsznia… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
A photogrammetric flight was performed in December 2016 as BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line
of Sight) operation over Penguin Island (South Shetland Islands, Western Antarctica) …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing for Antarctic Research: A review of progress, current applications, and future use cases

Y Li, G Qiao, S Popov, X Cui… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Antarctica has been significantly influenced by global climate change. Owing to the
spatiotemporal limitations of existing datasets, budgetary constraints, logistical challenges …

Snow depth retrieval with an autonomous UAV-mounted software-defined radar

S Prager, G Sexstone, D McGrath… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present results from a field campaign to measure seasonal snow depth at Cameron
Pass, Colorado, using a synthetic ultrawideband software-defined radar (SDRadar) …

UAV-based photogrammetry and LiDAR for the characterization of ice morphology evolution

T Li, B Zhang, W Xiao, X Cheng, Z Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ice doline is a particular kind of ice morphology, usually scattered on ice streams which are
mostly far from the existing research bases. For this reason, glaciologists rarely have …

CReSIS airborne radars and platforms for ice and snow sounding

E Arnold, C Leuschen, F Rodriguez-Morales… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
This paper provides an update and overview of the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
(CReSIS) radars and platforms, including representative results from these systems. CReSIS …

Bed topography of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland, and Byrd Glacier, Antarctica

S Gogineni, JB Yan, J Paden, C Leuschen, J Li… - Journal of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
This paper presents the bed topography of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland, and Byrd Glacier,
Antarctica, derived from sounding these glaciers with high-sensitivity radars. To understand …