News

GlacierHub featured an item about the UAV workshop in Kathmandu and the UAV studies performed by us in Nepal.  

Utrecht University together with ICIMOD, FutureWater and Kathmandu University organized a successful workshop in Kathmandu titled “Glacier monitoring in the Himalayas using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” . In the morning a broad overview was presented of potential applications of UAVs in different fields with a particular focus on glaciological applications. In […]

UAV manufacturer senseFly from Switzerland uses our Lirung Glacier UAV study that was performed using their Swinglet CAM UAV as a case study to promote scientific use of their drones. Currently a glossy article is available and soon there will be an addition to their website as well.  

Science has posted a news item on their website about our research on debris-covered glaciers, following from this upcoming publication: Pellicciotti, F., Stephan, C., Miles, E., Immerzeel, W. W., & Bolch, T. (2015). Mass changes of the debris-covered glaciers in Langtang Himal 1974-2000 revealed by Hexagon and SRTM data, Journal of Glaciology, […]

The shorter, Dutch version of the Langtang research documentary created for NTR school television is available online.

Walter has presented our UAV work on Lirung Glacier at the AGU Fall Meeting session “Climate and the Changing Cryosphere in High Asia II”. During his presentation he showed the methods and results of the related paper as well as this flyby video of the high-resolution 3D model:  

For Dutch school television the NTR wanted to create a short version of the Langtang research documentary. Some extra footage was shot today!  

Time-lapse video of melting snow, which was due to two days of continuous precipitation from Cyclone Hudhud, October 2014 field trip to the Langtang Valley.  

Philip Kraaijenbrink started as a PhD student at Utrecht University on September 1st. He will work on the Climate-KIC funded PhD project “IceSpy: monitoring glacier dynamics using unmanned aerial vehicles”.