无人机在冰川变化监测中的应用——以唐古拉山小冬克玛底冰川为例

doi:10.18306/dlkxjz.2021.09.013

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In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has experienced a great improvement. Due to its flexibility and super-high resolution, UAV has a great development potential in the field of glacier change monitoring. In this study, three UAV surveys were conducted, for the first time above 5400 m altitude, at the Xiao Dongkemadi Glacier, which is located in the Tanggula Mountains on the central Tibetan Plateau. Three UAV products were co-registered based on the reference points of bedrocks around the glacier. Then, we analyzed the ablation pattern of the glacier in a year of balance and ablation season, and further explored the application of UAV in glacier change monitoring and discussed the problems we met, as well as advantages of UAV, to provide some guidance for future research. Our results show that the UAV technology is suitable for the change monitoring in a single and small glacier. It can be used to monitor glacier changes in terminal, area, surface elevation, and detail glacier features.

Key words: UAV, photogrammetry, remote sensing, glacier change, Xiao Dongkemadi Glacier

XUE Yu'ang, JING Zhefan, KANG Shichang. Application of unmanned aerial vehicle in glacier change monitoring: Taking the Xiao Dongkemadi Glacier in the Tanggula Mountains as an example[J].PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY, 2021, 40(9): 1590-1599.

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日期	覆盖范围/km²	飞行高度/m	分辨率/cm	相机倾角/(°)	照片数(有效数)/张
2019-07-20	0.548	150	3.24	90	449 (232)
2019-09-27	1.190	200	6.90	90	348 (334)
2020-07-16	1.350	200~250	6.97	80	342 (257)

对比项	花杆号
对比项	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
花杆实测变化	1.48	1.39	1.34	1.38	1.29	1.55	1.52	1.12	1.07	1.28
DEM提取变化	1.49	1.53	1.76	1.41	1.77	1.76	1.56	1.89	1.68	2.04
差值绝对值	0.01	0.14	0.42	0.03	0.48	0.21	0.04	0.77	0.61	0.76

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