Abstract ID: 3.13799 | Accepted as Talk | Talk | TBA | TBA

Glacier monitoring in Antarctic Peninsula is crucial to understanding their dynamics and evolution. Despite annual visits to field work, usually during summer, when data is recovered from automatic weather stations, obtaining data from time in between the visits is quite difficult. We have designed a system considering the rough climate conditions of glaciers regions and the inaccessibility of the area where it will be located to enable real-time visualization of the data collected by sensors through a web-site, including pictures for glacier surface changes analysis. Several measuring devices were installed in Antarctic Peninsula for taking pictures, measuring air temperature and relative humidity, measuring the position using GNSS receivers and sending all data through 3g/4g communication networks where available or via satellite links. Additionally, the equipment requires a very low production cost since it uses commercial components and has a very low power consumption to be operative during the whole year. When maintenance activities take place, whole data collection and replacement of damaged parts can be carried out if required. However, we have systems still running for more than 3 years without any action taken during this period.