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The Cryosphere, 9, 1– 11, 2015 /9/1/2015/ doi:10.5194/tc-9-1-2015 © Author(s) 2015. CC Attribution 3.0 License. UAV photogrammetry and structure from motion to assess calving dynamics at Store Glacier, a large outlet draining the Greenland ice sheet 1 2 3 4 4 1 1 5 J. C. Ryan , A. L. Hubbard , J. E. Box , J. Todd , P. Christoffersen , J. R. Carr , T. O. Holt , and N. Snooke 1Centre for Glaciology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK 2Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway 3Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark 4 Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 5Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK Correspondence to: J. C. Ryan (jor44@aber.ac.uk) Received: 29 March 2014 – Published in The Cryosphere Discuss.: 28 April 2014 Revised: 25 August 2014 – Accepted: 25 November 2014 – Published: 6 January 2015 Abstract. This study presents the application of a cost- 1 Introduction effective, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to investigate calv- ing dynamics at a major marine-terminating outlet glacier Observational and modelling studies have demonstrated that draining the western sector of the Greenland ice sheet. The Greenland’s marine outlet glaciers have a complex and po- UAV was flown over Store Glacier on three sorties dur- tentially non-linear response to both environmental forcing ing summer 2013 and acquired over 2000 overlapping, geo- (e.g. Vieli et al., 2000; Benn et al., 2007; Holland et al., 2008; tagged images of the calving front at an 40 cm ground Howat et al., 2010; Hubbard, 2011; Joughin et al., 2012; Wal- sampling distance. Stereo-photogrammetry applied to these