Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground – drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
The team is building drone-based maps and digital twins to spot hidden thaw and estimate future damage to roads, buildings and pipelines.
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Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground—drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen ground on which this town was built contains large bodies of ice. Along the eroding coastal bluffs, that hidden ice is becoming exposed and melting away.
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Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground – drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
A view of Wainwright, Alaska, which sits on low-lying coastal terrain underlain by permafrost. Ming XiaoFrom the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen ground that this town was built on contains large bodies of ice. Along the eroding coastal bluffs, that hidden ice is becoming exposed and literally melting away. This i…
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