Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based mapping of glacial meltwater discharge and its ecological implications in Antarctic fjords

Clarissa Vock1, Camila Neder2,3, Friederike Weith1, Rosby Ricardina Gómez Farfán4, Eduardo Jelic5, Juliane Stark1, Javier Babbonney Valenzuela6, Astrid Bracher7, Hendrik Pehlke1, Evagelis Spyrakos8 and Kerstin Jerosch1, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Benthic Ecology, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA-CONICET/UNC), Córdoba, Argentina, (3)Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic Ecosystems (BASE), Concepción, Chile, (4)Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, (5)Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Química Biológica de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (IQUIBICEN-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, (6)Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Geografía, Valparaíso, Chile, (7)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Climate Sciences, Bremerhaven, Germany, (8)University of Stirling, Earth and Planetary Observation Sciences (EPOS), Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Stirling, United Kingdom