Hello everyone. We're going back North. And this time we've got some exciting plans. Having shown last year that you can get amazing scans of the top surface of the ice using ScanLAB's scanning expertise, we're joined this year by the world leader in Polar AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) operations, Hanu Singh and his team from Woods Hole. They will put their vehicle under the ice to sonar scan the underside, complementing the laser scanned top and create a perfect 3d virtual replica of the ice floes that we're studying.
We'll try and update this blog (semi-regularly) over the next couple of weeks.
After that, Prof Peter Wadhams and I will join the BBC for Operation Iceberg in Baffin Bay (West Greenland), but more on that later.
Anyway - welcome back and I hope you'll enjoy following us around the great white North the next few weeks. To give you a flavour of what we do, here is a ScanLAB scan of the ARCTIC SUNRISE (this picture actually appeared in the June edition of Wired magazine - see also http://www.scanlabprojects.co.uk/)
