Airborne remote sensing campaign 2021

Supported projects from the SIOS’s Announcement of Opportunity (AO) in Airborne Remote Sensing-2021

Project title: Airborne Remote Sensing Monitoring in South Of Spitsbergen - 2021 (current evolution of polar environment)
Acronym: AirborneSIOS-2021
PI: Malgorzata Blaszczyk
Institution: University of Silesia, Poland

Project title: De-icing of Arctic Coasts: Critical or new opportunities for marine biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Acronym: ACCESS
PI: Janne E. Søreide
Institution: University Centre in Svalbard, Norway

Project title: Kongsvegen & Holtedahlfonna DEM 2021
Acronym: KoHoDEM
PI: Jack Kohler
​​​​​​​Institution: Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway

Project title: Centre for Integrated Remote sensing and Forecasting for Arctic operations
Acronym: CIRFA
PI: Thomas Kræmer
​​​​​​​Institution: University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Project title: Mapping surface properties on Lomonosovfonna
Acronym: SurfPro
PI: Veijo Pohjola
​​​​​​​Institution: Uppsala University, Sweden

Project title: Automatic system for monitoring vegetation and environmental seasonal changes on Svalbard using hyperspectral data
Acronym: ASMoVEn
PI: Lennart Nilsen
​​​​​​​Institution: University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Project title: The Vanishing White - Airborne Remote Sensing campaign Svalbard II 2021
Acronym: VANWHITE
PI: Hans Tømmervik
​​​​​​​Institution: Norwegian Institute of Nature Research, Norway

Project title: Climate Change Drives Fluctuations of Glacier Lakes in Svalbard - Crammerbreane Study Case (Crammerbreane Glacier Lakes)
Acronym: GLIS
PI: Iwo Wieczorek
​​​​​​​Institution: University of Wroclaw, Poland

Project title: Spatial-temporal evolution of sorted periglacial circles
Acronym: Cryo-Sort
PI: Livia Piermattei
​​​​​​​Institution: University of Oslo, Norway

Project title: Past constraints on a warmer and wetter future Arctic climate
Acronym: PASTFACT
PI: Benjamin Aubrey Robson
​​​​​​​Institution: University of Bergen, Norway

Project title: How many reindeer? Animal detection with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the High Arctic
PI: Åshild Ønvik Pedersen
​​​​​​​Institution: Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway
Data available: https://dataverse.no/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.18710/KHQKWH

Map of the tentative plans for data acquisition in 2021