UAV-based glacier monitoring: the Znosko case study
Springer · 2021
Antarctic Campaign 2026/27 · Znosko Glacier · 62°06′S 58°28′W
Antarctic Eye builds the digital memory of Antarctic glaciers - surface and depth, in one scientific record.
−70m
Front retreat · 13 months
4–5m
Surface ablation
1.5cm
Measurement accuracy
Measured in the field · Antar XXVI–XXVII campaigns · GEOmedia 3/2020 · Springer 2021


What happens here decides sea levels everywhere.
The observation gap
Field campaigns are short, rare and hard-won. Between one survey and the next, the glacier keeps changing - and no one is recording it.
Introducing Antarctic Eye
Traditional methods see only the outside. Antarctic Eye integrates what is visible on the surface with what lies within the ice - one three-dimensional record of the Znosko glacier, accurate to the centimetre.
From the field
Evidence
Two orthophotos of the same front, thirteen months apart. Move the line and see what the field campaigns measured.

Jan 2019Feb 2020Front change ≈ 70 m · MeasuredSpringer · 2021
GEOmedia 3/2020

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