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Description
Ongoing global warming and worldwide environment change have an instantimpact on Earth surface. In Arctic areas as Svalbard however, it is documentedthat this impact is as twice fast as in other places in the world. Rapid glaciersretreat yearly exposes vast areas of topographies with new outcrops andlithologies that have never been surveyed before. The conducted preliminaryfieldtrip with Nicolaus Copernicus University of Poland in Svalbard (Kaffiøyra) inAugust and September 2021, showed a large potential and necessity for thestructural geology and tectonic surveys. In the vicinity of the Polar Station, withinthree years, the glacier Aavatsmarkbreen exposed almost over 200 meters (inlength) of a new surface with vast outcrops, that for the first time in scientifichistory we had a chance to measure, survey and map. Though the regionrepresents large tectonic graben boundary of the pre-Ordovician and Tertiaryformations of two large geological provinces, till present, the understanding of thestructural geology of Kaffiøyra, was very limited due to glaciers coverage andmostly concentrated in the western side of the peninsula. As the result, wepropose to initiate surveys, which can contribute a significant input to a worldwidegeoscientific community to restudy and strengthen the understanding of structuralgeology and tectonics of large geological structures in such remote places asArctic. Based on 2021 fieldtrip, the survey will require substantial fieldwork withsupporting hardware. Since the limitation of the possible fieldwork period(seasons, weather, day/nighttime) and remote as well as vast place, the fieldworkwould be supported by a UAV system (drone). Chosen hardware suitable to thepolar conditions, as temperature and wind, has to be capable to cover larger andremote areas to map high resolution 3D structural maps andorthrophotogrammetry images. Since the area is characterized by non-vegetationcoverage, the continuously retreating glacier exposes large outcrops that a UAVsystem is a very suitable supporting tool for structural mapping. The willingnessof the Polish Polar Station in Kaffiøyra, Svalbard for the collaboration, gives us aunique opportunity to survey such remote places, where Taiwan can aid animportant input for the structural geological, tectonic and geomorphologicalunderstanding of the Arctic regions including North American/Eurasian boundary.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 1/06/22 → 31/10/23 |
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- Structural Geology
- Arctic
- Aerial Survey
- Topography
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