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Flying small things to take pictures of places
at the top of the world
Upgoer Challenge
Presenter: Jens Klump | OCE Science Leader Earth Science Informatics
01 June 2017 | Linking Environmental Data and Samples 2017
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What we wanted to do:
What we wanted to do:
• Find little growing things that live on white hard water, and that
look like blood, living at the cold white top of the world.
• These little growing things can live when it is very cold, it does not
kill them. It kills them when it gets too warm.
• We could use this to make better ice to eat and other food.
• We did not understand what makes them grow in some places,
but not in other places. Maybe it had to do with the water, maybe
with the rocks.
• So, in 2013 we went to the top of the world, where it is very cold,
to find out.
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The land at the top of the world
What we tried to do:
• Find all fields of white hard water with living things on top.
• Little living things that look like blood are not found on all fields of
white hard water.
• The red living things that look like blood like it when it is wet on
the hard water.
• Some people said that the rocks under the fields of hard water tell
us whether we will find the red living things on the hard water
because the rocks change the water. We wanted to see the
changes in the water.
• We took along a small flying thing to take pictures of the white
fields of hard water from above.
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This is what it looks like
© Photographs: R. Bannasch
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Hard work for humans and flying things
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© R. Bannasch
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Not easy to work there
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© T. Leya
© R. Bannasch
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Not so safe
© R. Bannasch
© J. Braune
Not safe for
flying thing
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Not safe for humans
The small flying thing
© Ascending Technologies
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Taking pictures from the air
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Example: Gnållodden, Hornsund
© T. Leya
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What we learned
• The small flying thing worked very well.
• It is light and can be carried around easily even if the ground is not easy to
walk on. And it does not break easily
• It is easy to fly even when the wind is strong and the ground is not easy to
walk on.
• Taking pictures with the picture box on the small flying thing
showed us new things we didn't know about fields of white hard
water.
• In the light that our eyes can see we could easily tell water from hard water
and we could see the small living things on top of the white hard water.
• Using the picture box for the light we can feel as warm didn't work so well
because the rocks around the hard water were to bright in this kind of light.
• We should have taken along a picture box for light just outside of the light we
can see to tell us whether the living things were feeling well, to look at the so
called the red edge.
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Thank goes to:
• Fraunhofer IBMT – money and getting us and our stuff there.
• German Research Centre for Geosciences – money and getting us
and our stuff there.
• Johannes Braune and Rudolf Bannasch – pictures, looking out for
big white animals that want to kill us, keeping us safe
• Stein Siemenstad – Driving us around on the water, helping us to
get our stuff around, looking out for big white animals that want
to kill us.
• Ascending Technologies – Helping us with the small flying thing.
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Thank you
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Jens Klump
OCE Science Leader Earth Science
Informatics
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Research Group Leader
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