Glacier melting monitoring station SmartStake

battery-poweredreal-timeablation measurement

Monitor the glacier ablation with sub-hourly time step and millimetric accuracy SmartStake is a portable and autonomous station for tracking the glacier mass loss along the melt season The SmartStake station allows you to monitor ice ablation on a glacier with high accuracy over long periods of time 4 meas./hour Up to 7 m 1 mm Internal SD card LoRaWAN, wireless Additional sensors GPS Snowfall detector Temperature Continuous ablation measurement based on a reliable and simple method The SmartStake station relies on a simple working principle: the device is installed on the surface of the glacier and a rope is uncoiled into a hole drilled in the ice. As the ice melt, the elevation of the device decreases and the rope coils back. The instrument measures the winding of the rope and computes the corresponding vertical displacement, hence the cumulative ice ablation. The measurement is performed on a regular basis, typically every 15 minutes. The output is stored on a card and may optionally be sent over a telecommunication network.