Remote sensing

Larsen-C Benthos

On 12 July 2017, the Larsen-C Ice Shelf calved one of the largest iceberg originating from the Antarctic Peninsula ever recorded. As iceberg A68 moves north, it leaves behind an …

PolarGAP

The polar regions have the capacity to amaze and astound, but despite the considerable progress of recent decades we still know far less about them than less remote parts of …

BAS twin otter aircraft on the Antarctic ice sheet.

ESA IAP ArcticSat project

Situational awareness in the Arctic

Filchner Ice Shelf System, Antarctica

Understanding the contribution that polar ice sheets make to global sea-level rise is recognised internationally as urgent. The mission of this five-year project is to capture new observations and data …

Exploring the Recovery Lakes region and interior Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, with airborne gravity, magnetic and radar measurements

1 January, 2018

BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation

16 November, 2017

High resolution boundary conditions of an old ice target near Dome C, Antarctica

14 August, 2017

The Shackleton Crossing

1 January, 2017

South Georgia

1 January, 2017

Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large-scale marine protected areas

3 October, 2016

An avionics platform for multi-instrument survey navigation

1 September, 2016

The use of fishing vessels to provide acoustic data on the distribution and abundance of Antarctic krill and other pelagic species

1 June, 2016

On the feasibility of imaging carbonatite-hosted rare earth element deposits using remote sensing

1 May, 2016

Automated lithological mapping using airborne hyperspectral thermal infrared data, Anchorage Island, Antarctica

1 April, 2016

New Antarctic gravity anomaly grid for enhanced geodetic and geophysical studies in Antarctica

28 January, 2016

Mapping lichen distribution on the Antarctic Peninsula using remote sensing, lichen spectra and photographic documentation by citizen scientists

4 October, 2015

Manual mapping of drumlins in synthetic landscapes to assess operator effectiveness

1 October, 2015

A protocol for the aerial survey of penguin colonies using UAVs

1 September, 2015

Evolution of surface velocities and ice discharge of Larsen B outlet glaciers from 1995 to 2013

9 May, 2015

Increasing accuracy: a new design and algorithm for automatically measuring weights, travel direction and radio frequency identification (RFID) of penguins.

20 April, 2015

Bedgap – where next for Antarctic subglacial mapping?

1 December, 2014

The BAS ice shelf hot water drill: design, methods and tools

1 November, 2014

Sustaining observations in the polar oceans

28 September, 2014

Commercial fishing vessel as research vessels in the Antarctic – requirements and solutions exemplified with a new vessel

17 September, 2014

Conclusions: Present and future of Southern Ocean biogeography

1 August, 2014

Auroral spectral estimation with wide-band color mosaic CCDs

11 June, 2014

An assessment of deep hot-water drilling as a means to undertake direct measurement and sampling of Antarctic subglacial lakes: experience and lessons learned from the Lake Ellsworth field season 2012/13

5 June, 2014

An assessment of the use of ocean gliders to undertake acoustic measurements of zooplankton: the distribution and density of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the Weddell Sea

1 June, 2014

Mapping sub-pixel fluvial grain sizes with hyperspatial imagery

1 April, 2014

Aliens in Antarctica: Assessing transfer of plant propagules by human visitors to reduce invasion risk

1 March, 2014

Whales from space: counting southern right whales by satellite

12 February, 2014

Aircraft-Deployable Ice Observation System (ADIOS) for instrumenting inaccessible glaciers

1 October, 2013

Glacial geomorphology of Marguerite Bay Palaeo-Ice stream, western Antarctic Peninsula

19 August, 2013

The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) version 1.0 – a new bathymetric compilation covering circum-Antarctic waters

28 June, 2013

On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data

1 June, 2013

Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

28 February, 2013

Magnetic susceptibilities of rocks of the Antarctic Peninsula: Implications for the redox state of the batholith and the extent of metamorphic zones

11 February, 2013

Crustal architecture of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica, as revealed from airborne gravity data

11 February, 2013

Air and shipborne magnetic surveys of the Antarctic into the 21st century

11 February, 2013

New continental margin magnetic anomalies of East Antarctica

11 February, 2013

Analysis of James Ross Island volcanic complex and sedimentary basin based on high-resolution aeromagnetic data

11 February, 2013

Preface

11 February, 2013

New satellite imagery reveals new highest Antarctic Peninsula Mountain

11 December, 2017

Cartographers surveying Antarctica have discovered Mt Hope is the tallest mountain in the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) at 3,239 m (10,654 ft) above sea level. Until now, maps showed Mt …

Giant West Antarctic iceberg disintegrates

29 November, 2017

An animation of the giant iceberg that calved off the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica just over two months ago shows an unexpected break up. Satellite images revealed a …

Huge Antarctic iceberg finally breaks free

12 July, 2017

After months of ‘hanging by a thread’ a vast iceberg the size of Norfolk has finally broken off Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. Around 30 metres of this 190m thick …

NEWS STORY: New Centre for Doctoral Training

6 October, 2015

NERC funds PhD training in robotics and autonomous systems