Articles | Volume 15, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-6521-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-6521-2022
Research article
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14 Nov 2022
Research article |  | 14 Nov 2022

ICE-CAMERA: a flatbed scanner to study inland Antarctic polar precipitation

Massimo Del Guasta

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Any instrument on the Antarctic plateau must cope with a harsh environment. Concordia station is a special place for testing new instruments. With low temperatures and weak winds, precipitation can be studied by simply collecting it on horizontal surfaces. This is typically done manually. ICE-CAMERA is intended as an automatic alternative. The combined construction of rugged equipment for taking photographs of particles and the adoption of machine learning techniques have served this purpose.
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