Intern uses drone images to map coastal permafrost and erosion
June 8, 2020
![Logan Borger is a summer intern at UAF's Alaska Center for Energy andPower. Photo courtesy of Logan Borger.](https://uaf.edu/news/archives/wordpress-images/vfb/2020/06/Logan-Borger-500x481.jpg)
A research project is using aerial images to study the characteristics of permafrost and coastal erosion processes relevant to energy and power applications on Alaska’s North Slope coast.
Logan Borger, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering at UAF, is part of a project team using photogrammetric imagery processing techniques to study aerial photographs collected as part of Task 6 of the "Secure and Resilient Power Generation in Cold Regions Project." This project is funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center.
![Drone image of Foggy Island Bay courtesy of Logan Borger.](https://uaf.edu/news/archives/wordpress-images/vfb/2020/06/Foggy-Island-500x375.jpg)
Borger, working with researcher Erin Trochim, will be taking images captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, and creating digital surface models for this area. Borger is a summer intern with UAF's Alaska Center for Energy and Power, and recently worked on a new site, in Foggy Island Bay.
For more information, email Amanda Byrd at agbyrd@alaska.edu.