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Links and Acknowledgements

PyTrx citations

We are happy for others to use and adapt PyTrx for their own processing needs. If used, please cite the following key publication and Digital Object Identifier:

How et al. (2020) PyTrx: a Python-based monoscopic terrestrial photogrammetry toolset for glaciology. Frontiers in Earth Science 8:21, doi:10.3389/feart.2020.00021

PyTrx has been used in the following publications. In addition to the publication above, please cite any that are applicable where possible:

  • How et al. (2019) Calving controlled by melt-undercutting: detailed mechanisms revealed through time-lapse observations. Annals of Glaciology 60 (78), 20-31, doi:10.1017/aog.2018.28
  • How (2018) Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-lapse photogrammetry. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, UK, https://hdl.handle.net/1842/31103
  • How et al. (2017) Rapidly changing subglacial hydrological pathways at a tidewater glacier revealed through simultaneous observations of water pressure, supraglacial lakes, meltwater plumes and surface velocities. The Cryosphere 11, 2691-2710, doi:10.5194/tc-11-2691-2017
  • Addison (2015) PyTrx: feature tracking software for automated production of glacier velocity. MSc thesis, University of Edinburgh, UK, https://hdl.handle.net/1842/11794

Permissions

The DEM of the Kongsfjorden area provided as an example dataset for PyTrx originates from the freely available DEM dataset provided by the Norwegian Polar Institute, data product 'S0 Terrengmodell - Delmodell_5m_2009_13822_33 (GeoTIFF)'. This data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license:

Norwegian Polar Institute (2014). Terrengmodell Svalbard (S0 Terrengmodell) [Data set]. Norwegian Polar Institute. doi:10.21334/npolar.2014.dce53a47

The two DEMs distributed with PyTrx for the Kongsfjorden region are KR_demsmooth.tif and KR_demzero.tif, which have been modified and manipulated from the original NPI data. In both cases, the scene has been clipped to the area of interest, downgraded to 20 metre resolution, and smoothed using a linear interpolation method. The latter of these DEMs has been manipulated in order to better represent the terminus position of Kronebreen in 2014 (the time at which the images were taken) and project meltwater plumes to a flat, homogeneous surface at sea level.

The DEM of the Tempelfjorden area provided as an example dataset for PyTrx originates from ArcticDEM, Scene ID: WV01_20130714_1020010 (July 14, 2013). There is no license for the ArcticDEM data and it can be used and distributed freely. The DEM was created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736.

The DEM distributed with PyTrx of the Tempelfjorden region is called TU_demzero.tif, which has been modified and manipulated from the original ArcticDEM data. The scene has been clipped to the area of interest, downgraded to 20 metre resolution, and all low-lying elevations (< 150 m) have been transformed to 0 m a.s.l. in order to project point locations and line profiles to a flat, homogeneous surface at sea level.

The example image sets and UAV-derived DEM from Qasigiannguit glacier are used courtesy of Asiaq Greenland Survey as part of Messerli et al. (In Review), through GlacioBasis Nuuk under the GEM (Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring) programme. The DEM file provided as QAS_drone_dem.tif was acquired from UAV surveying in September 2020 and downgraded to 20 metre resolution.

Acknowledgements

PyTrx was initially developed and released as part of the CRIOS (Calving Rates and Impact on Sea Level) project. Example image sets and camera data from Svalbard glaciers are provided by CRIOS. PyTrx's continued development and maintenance is funded by an ESA Living Planet Fellowship.

Parts of the georectification functions in the PyTrx toolbox were inspired and translated from ImGRAFT, a photogrammetry toolbox for Matlab (Messerli and Grinsted, 2015). Where possible, ImGRAFT has been credited for in the corresponding PyTrx scripts (primarily some passages in the CamEnv.py script) and cited in relevant PyTrx publications.

Links

There are other useful software available for terrestrial photogrammetry in glaciology: