Launching the Drone (VIDEO) UiT The Arctic University of Norway This video is under embargo. Please login to access this video. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Caption Professor Alun Hubbard launches an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to survey the Greenland ice sheet. The fixed-wing UAVs can take hundreds of images with pixel resolutions on the centimeter scale with an operating range of hundreds of kilometers. Credit A. Hubbard/J.Ryan Usage Restrictions Attribution License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.