Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground – drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming

September 29, 2026 · 12:45 pm 2 sources

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• Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground – drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
  This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. · September 29, 2026 12:45
  A regional permafrost map can’t tell a builder if a particular foundation or road will survive as temperatures rise. Engineers need to see beneath the surface to find the weaknesses.

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• Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground—drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
  Phys.org · September 29, 2026 19:20
  From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen ground on which this town was built contains large bodies of ice. Along the eroding coastal bluffs, that hidden ice is…