Permafrost Laboratory

Equipped with a DJI Phantom 4 Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) drone and mobile base station, we can accurately track surface changes due to thawing permafrost around several of our field sites. The preliminary data are being processed and are looking good so far. Here's an example of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from Franklin Bluffs in northern Alaska. 

Recently Prof. Vladimir Romanovsky, Geophysicist and Permafrost Lab Leader was interviewed about the Lab's newest developments. High-resolution maps of possible future changes of Alaska's permafrost.

The BBC has a story about us and the thawing permafrost in Alaska.