Greenland glacier discharge variability from automated ground-based imaging

NASA grant NNX06AE31G, August 1, 2006 – July 31, 2009

Scientific Investigator Jason E. Box
Photographic Partner James Balog
Engineering Partner Alberto Behar
Photogrammetry: Yushin Ahn; Henry Brecher; Dean Merchant

Celebrating The International Polar Year

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Extreme Ice Survey automatic camera at Umiamiko Isbrae, West Greenland

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Two frames, 10 AM, 3 weeks apart

17-August 9-Sept 2005 animated gif (777 kb)

31 frames, 10 AM, 3 weeks

17-August 18-Sept 2005 animated gif, 31 frames, (7.6 Mb)

International Polar Year Year 1 Status

Expedition I (Box, Balog, Orlowski, Behar)

We installed 12 cameras at six Greenland glaciers.
23May - 24 June

Expedition II (Balog)

August 27-28, 2007, c/o NBC

Expedition III (Box)

5-9 November, 2007, c/o NBC, see video.

IceCam Tele-Communications

Icecams are being equipped with satellite communication developed by Alberto Behar of NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory.
IceCam Telemetry has been automated by Jason Box using the Python programming language and UNIX crontab.
James Degrand at Ohio State University Department of Geography employed Ploticus and awk scripts to make graphs of the telemetered data from the 5 IceCam sites, click below...

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