Automatic detection of calving events from time-lapse imagery at Tunabreen, Svalbard

Vallot, Dorothée; Adinugroho, Sigit; Strand, Robin; How, Penelope; Pettersson, Rickard; Benn, Douglas I.; Hulton, Nicholas R. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-8-113-2019

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-8-113-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-8-113-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Research article

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29 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 29 Mar 2019

Automatic detection of calving events from time-lapse imagery at Tunabreen, Svalbard

Dorothée Vallot, Sigit Adinugroho, Robin Strand, Penelope How, Rickard Pettersson, Douglas I. Benn, and Nicholas R. J. Hulton

Model code and software

Program to automatically detect calving at the front of a tidewater glacier from timelapse images D. Vallot, S. Adinugroho, R. Strand, and R. Pettersson https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2595541

Short summary

This paper presents a novel method to quantify the sizes and frequency of calving events from time-lapse camera images. The calving front of a tidewater glacier experiences different episodes of iceberg deliveries that can be captured by a time-lapse camera situated in front of the glacier. An automatic way of detecting calving events is presented here and compared to manually detected events.