Chapter 04 · The Expedition
Built for Antarctica.
Our third Antarctic campaign, run by a lean team with real polar logistics.
Field record
Twenty-one days on the ice.
Three specialists, one weather window, and a base at the end of the world.
Base of operations
The mission runs from Machu Picchu Base.
Peru’s Antarctic station on King George Island, operated by the Antarctic Program of Peru since the 1990s. The 2026/27 campaign works from here.
Simultaneous field operations
Three specialists. One glacier.
Each specialist operates one instrument, full time. They work the same window on different sectors of the glacier, so surface, depth and geodetic control are acquired in a single pass. The accuracy of the final model depends on all three being right.
RPAS / Remote sensing
RGB drone · Thermal drone · LiDAR sensor
LiDAR point cloud, RGB orthomosaics, thermal maps, DSM.
GPR / Geophysics
Ground-penetrating radar · Antennas · Profiles
Georeferenced GPR profiles, ice thickness map, ice-bedrock interface.
Geodesy / GNSS
GNSS/RTK antenna · Ground control points
High-accuracy control points, georeferencing, integrated database.
This is what we measure
King George Island, South Shetland Islands · Field footage, Antarctic campaigns
Institutional & scientific partners
Backed where it matters.
Antarctic Eye is grounded in institutional and scientific collaboration with INAIGEM, Peru's national institute for glacier research, and IGN Peru's national Antarctic program. Its methodology has been published internationally.
- INAIGEM
- IGN Perú