THE dramatic effects of climate change on Iceland’s glaciers have been highlighted as part of a new documentary made by a Dundee University expert.
After Ice features images from the 1940s and 80s that were painstakingly reconstructed in 3D and overlaid with current day drone footage to show how greenhouse gas emissions are causing glaciers to retreat sometimes by hundreds of metres a year.
Dr Kieran Baxter, a lecturer in communication design at the university’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, teamed up with Iceland University for the four-year project, which shows the alarming rate at which glaciers in the country’s Hornafjordur region are disappearing.
It was made using digital photogrammetry methods to create 3D reconstructions of historic aerial photos, sourced from the archives of the National Land Survey of Iceland. Drones were then used to film the same landscapes in the current day, revealing the forlorn state of the glaciers.
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