Launching the Drone (VIDEO)

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Professor Alun Hubbard launches an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to survey the Greenland ice sheet. The fixed-wing UAVs can take hundreds of images with pixel resolutions on the centimeter scale with an operating range of hundreds of kilometers.

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A. Hubbard/J.Ryan

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