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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

This summer, I went on a joint campaign with UBIQ Aerospace and the NTNU UAV Icing Lab at the icing wind tunnel facility of the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT). The main goal of the campaigns was to do experiments on ice protection systems for UAVs…