In this photo, you see the students and researchers of the summer school on the Belvedere Glacier in 2023. Every year, they carry out a surveying campaign of the glacier. Using GNSS receivers, digital cameras mounted on drones, and lidar stations, they collect data that, when properly processed, allows for the creation of a 3D model of the glacier. Year by year, they record changes in the glacier’s shape caused by climatological phenomena.

What is a surveying campaign? What can you observe using these sensors? How do you process the collected data to create the 3D model?

There is a lot of theory behind it!

You can learn how to perform such monitoring by studying Positioning and Location-Based Services, Photogrammetry and Drone Surveying, Image Analysis, Computer Graphics, and Machine Learning.