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

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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

Dorothée Vallot

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

dorothee.vallot@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0128-3386

Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Sigit Adinugroho

Faculty of Computer Science, Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia

Centre for Image Analysis, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Robin Strand

Centre for Image Analysis, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Penelope How

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8088-8497

Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Rickard Pettersson

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6961-0128

Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Douglas I. Benn

School of Geography and Geosciences, University St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

Nicholas R. J. Hulton

Department of Arctic Geology, UNIS, The University Center in Svalbard, Svalbard, Norway

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Influence of glacier runoff and near-terminus subglacial hydrology on frontal ablation at a large Greenlandic tidewater glacier C. Bunce et al. 10.1017/jog.2020.109
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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.

This paper presents a novel method to quantify the sizes and frequency of calving events from...