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    How to fly a drone in Svalbard (safely).

    by richard-hann 13. March 2023

    Recently, a report on the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) was released during the SIOS Polar Night Week in Longyearbyen. It is the fifth issue of an annual series of reports published by the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS). Before, I wrote two…

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    Training course on Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles in Svalbard (UAV4Svalbard)

    by richard-hann 1. March 2023

    This autumn I will be part of a training course with the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS). The course will be about how to use drones for scientific purposes specifically in Svalbard.  It is intended to give researchers who have not worked with…

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    Using drones to count reindeer in Svalbard

    by richard-hann 3. January 2023

    In our new publication, we present the results of using drones to count reindeer in Svalbard. The work is based on fieldwork results that we collected in a summer campaign in 2021. The work was conducted in collaboration with NTNU, UNIS, and the Norwegian Polar…

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    Organizing a workshop

    by richard-hann 9. December 2022

    I had a very busy year with not too many opportunities to blog. One of the most recent activities was the organization of the first-ever conference on the topic of my main research – the UAV Icing Workshop! One week after the 1st UAV Icing…

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    Monitoring the snow cornices for avalanche risks

    by richard-hann 18. May 2022

    Recently, I joined a team of researchers to fly drones to inspect the snow cornices on Gruvefjellet – a mountainside in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Their work helps to understand and assess the risks of cornice-triggered avalanches in Longyearbyen.  Snow cornices are overhanging snow structures that form…

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    Can ice fragments destroy a UAV propeller?

    by richard-hann 8. April 2022

    In one of our recent icing wind tunnel experiments, the NTNU UAV Icing Lab investigated if ice fragments are a hazard to UAV propellers. The resulting high-speed video footage shows the moment ice impacts the propeller blades. Here is a small preview of the footage….

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    Measuring wind with off-the-shelf drones

    by richard-hann 31. March 2022

    In our latest publication, we are introducing a novel method to measure wind with small quadcopters. The method works for drones type DJI Phantom and Mavic. The method post-processes the internal flight data (attitude data) from the drone to estimate wind speed and wind direction….

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    More on How Unmanned Vehicles are used for Science in Svalbard

    by richard-hann 24. January 2022

    Today a report on the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) was released during the SIOS Polar Night Week in Longyearbyen. It is the fourth issue of an annual series of reports published by the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS). I wrote a chapter…

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    My research lab is in the news!

    by richard-hann 5. January 2022

    Gemini, a Norwegian Sci-Tech news site, has written a nice article about our research lab! The article is using a lot of our pictures and videos and is aimed at the general public. It’s good to see our work making such an impact!

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    How to make your research visible

    by richard-hann 12. November 2021

    I recently read an interesting article by Beel et al. (2010) who studied Academic Search Engine Optimization. Essentially, they looked into the mechanisms of Google Scholar and similar search engines for research publications. Their work gives some valuable insights into how to improve the visibility…

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