Remotely operated aircraft successfully tested as tool for measuring changes in polar ice sheets
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 06:00
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) —Scientists studying the behavior of the world's ice sheets—and the future implications of ice sheet behavior for global sea-level rise—may soon have a new airborne tool that will allow radar measurements that previously would have been prohibitively expensive or difficult to carry out with manned aircraft.