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Published online 18 March 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.680
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Unmanned craft chart the Antarctic winter
Sea-ice study benefits from first robotic flights over Weddell Sea.
A fleet of unmanned aircraft has successfully swooped around the Antarctic, gathering data from areas that would otherwise have remained uncharted.
The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were deployed by a team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Technical University at Brunswick in Germany.
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