Glacier-mapping drone soars to nearly 5000 meters, setting a record
By David MalakoffNov. 10, 2017 , 12:56 PM
High in the Peruvian Andes, Oliver Wigmore has helped open a new scientific frontier: The earth scientist has flown a data-collecting drone to nearly 5000 meters, the highest such flight ever reported in the scientific literature, he and colleague Bryan Mark report this week in The Cyrosphere. To understand how tropical glaciers are responding to climate change, Wigmore, now at the University of Colorado in Boulder, custom-built an ultralight six-rotor hexacopter designed to reach 6000 meters.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/glacier-mapping-drone-soars-nearly-5000-meters-setting-record
