High-accuracy UAV photogrammetry of ice sheet dynamics with no ground control

Chudley, Thomas R.; Christoffersen, Poul; Doyle, Samuel H.; Abellan, Antonio; Snooke, Neal

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-955-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

The Cryosphere, 13, 955–968, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-955-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

The Cryosphere, 13, 955–968, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-955-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article 19 Mar 2019

Research article | 19 Mar 2019

High-accuracy UAV photogrammetry of ice sheet dynamics with no ground control

Thomas R. Chudley et al.

Download

Final revised paper (published on 19 Mar 2019)
Supplement to the final revised paper
Preprint (discussion started on 10 Dec 2018)
Supplement to the preprint

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'Review of "High accuracy UAV photogrammetry of ice sheet dynamics with no ground control", Chudley, and al.', Guillaume Jouvet, 08 Jan 2019
RC2: 'Review of "High accuracy UAV photogrammetry of ice sheet dynamics with no ground control"', Oliver Wigmore, 17 Jan 2019
AC1: 'Response to Reviews', Tom Chudley, 20 Feb 2019

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Tom Chudley on behalf of the Authors (20 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (05 Mar 2019) by Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson

AR by Tom Chudley on behalf of the Authors (05 Mar 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly common tools in the geosciences, but their use requires good ground control in order to make accurate georeferenced models. This is difficult in applications such as glaciology, where access to study sites can be hazardous. We show that a new technique utilising on-board GPS post-processing can match and even improve on ground-control-based methods, and, as a result, can produce accurate glacier velocity fields even on an inland ice sheet.