Site Selection of the Colombian Antarctic Research Station Based on Fuzzy-Topsis Algorithm

Coronado-Hernández, Jairo R.; Rios-Angulo, Wilson A.; Segovia, Camilo; Urrego-Niño, Diana; Romero-Conrado, Alfonso R.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53956-6_60

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“…Other logistical aspects examined in the previously cited study [2] describe the South Bay as the best option for a new base.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The optimal location for the station should be defined by various criteria such as land relief, soil stability, easy access from the water, and costs of the scientific activities. Initially, these criteria were studied employing the Fuzzy TOPSIS algorithm [2]. The cited study focused on the South Shetland Islands in the Bransfield Strait (Figure 1) with possible locations along the Livingston and King George Islands and between the Robert and Greenwich Islands.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The propagation within the area of interest, with a fine spatial resolution, gives the local swell conditions related to the high-energy waves coming from Drake's Passage. The objective of this paper was to characterize the swell conditions near the coasts of the islands where the preliminary analyses [2] evaluated the potential locations for the scientific station.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Swell Conditions at Potential Sites for the Colombian Antarctic Research Station

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Coronado³

2022

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The objective of this paper was to characterize swell conditions in the coastal zone of the South Shetland Islands, where our preliminary analyses evaluated potential locations for the Colombian scientific station. The Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) spectral model was implemented for the Bransfield Strait. The boundary conditions were selected by a cluster analysis of the wave climate from global hindcasting obtained with the WAVEWATCH III model. Some comparisons between the model and wavemeter measurements were made. The results demonstrated that optimal sea state conditions for the scientific base are present in the South Bay, Livingston Island.

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“…Other logistical aspects examined in the previously cited study [2] describe the South Bay as the best option for a new base.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Swell Conditions at Potential Sites for the Colombian Antarctic Research Station

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2022

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“…The 5 book chapters are lecture notes mainly related to technological and engineering areas, namely in control, mechanics and computer science [19][20][21][22][23].…”

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“…The applications in the terrestrial or ice-free areas are varied and constituted by 54 papers, references [21][22][23], with most of them focused on vegetation (20 papers) and landforms and soils (18 papers) as shown in Table 6. The other sub-topics of interest refer to reference datasets like orthomosaics and elevation models (12 papers), typical from the early UAV surveys in Antarctica, together with geophysical surveys (3 papers) and the development of image processing algorithms (1 paper).…”

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UAVs for Science in Antarctica

Pina

Vieira

2022

Remote Sensing

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Remote sensing is a very powerful tool that has been used to identify, map and monitor Antarctic features and processes for nearly one century. Satellite remote sensing plays the main role for about the last five decades, as it is the only way to provide multitemporal views at continental scale. But the emergence of small consumer-grade unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the past two decades has paved the way for data in unprecedented detail. This has been also verified by an increasing noticeable interest in Antarctica by the incorporation of UAVs in the field activities in diversified research topics. This paper presents a comprehensive review about the use of UAVs in scientific activities in Antarctica. It is based on the analysis of 190 scientific publications published in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of conferences which are organised into six main application topics: Terrestrial, Ice and Snow, Fauna, Technology, Atmosphere and Others. The analysis encompasses a detailed overview of the activities, identifying advantages and difficulties, also evaluating future possibilities and challenges for expanding the use of UAV in the field activities. The relevance of using UAVs to support numerous and diverse scientific activities in Antarctica becomes very clear after analysing this set of scientific publications, as it is revolutionising the remote acquisition of new data with much higher detail, from inaccessible or difficult to access regions, in faster and cheaper ways. Many of the advances can be seen in the terrestrial areas (detailed 3D mapping; vegetation mapping, discrimination and health assessment; periglacial forms characterisation), ice and snow (more detailed topography, depth and features of ice-sheets, glaciers and sea-ice), fauna (counting penguins, seals and flying birds and detailed morphometrics) and in atmosphere studies (more detailed meteorological measurements and air-surface couplings). This review has also shown that despite the low environmental impact of UAV-based surveys, the increasing number of applications and use, may lead to impacts in the most sensitive Antarctic ecosystems. Hence, we call for an internationally coordinated effort to for planning and sharing UAV data in Antarctica, which would reduce environmental impacts, while extending research outcomes.

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