Decadal and seasonal geodetic mass balance monitoring of Storbreen glacier from UAV and aerial data
This Master's project was designed for Ingrid J酶rgensen Valstad who started the Master's program in Earth sciences, UiB, fall 2024. The Master's project is given by the research group Quaternary geology & paleo climate.
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Project description
Ingrid will use archival aerial photography from Kartverket to create DEMs of Storbreen back to the 1960s and determine the geodetic mass balance between different time slices. This will be complimented by UAV surveys this september (hopefully), next april, and then again in September that coincide with when NVE take their in-situ measurements. This will allow a direct comparison between the field measurements and the remote sensing data, both on short (seasonal) and long (decadal) scales.
Proposed course plan during the master's degree (60 ECTS)
GEOV336 Lab- og metodekurs i kvart忙rgeologi (10)
GEOV217 Geofarar (10)
(GEOV230 / Glasialgeologi og geomorfologi (10 stp))
AG-325 Glaciology at UNIS or GEOV325
GEOV316 Praktiske ferdigheiter i fjernm氓ling og romleg analyse
Field-, lab- and analysis work
Joining NVE on their twice annual mass balance measurements