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Research article
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28 Mar 2017
Research article |
| 28 Mar 2017
Terrain changes from images acquired on opportunistic flights by SfM photogrammetry
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Postboks 1047 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Christopher Nuth
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Postboks 1047 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Andreas Kääb
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Postboks 1047 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Bernd Etzelmüller
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Postboks 1047 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
Jack Kohler
Norwegian Polar Institute, Framsenteret, Hjalmar Johansens gate 14, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
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Short summary
While gathering data on a changing environment is often a costly and complicated endeavour, it is also the backbone of all research. What if one could measure elevation change by just strapping a camera and a hiking GPS under an helicopter or a small airplane used for transportation and gather data on the ground bellow the flight path? In this article, we present a way to do exactly that and show an example survey where it helped compute the volume of ice lost by a glacier in Svalbard.
While gathering data on a changing environment is often a costly and complicated endeavour, it...
