Bathymetric surveys of Tatras glacial lakes: Case study – Batizovske pleso

Rok, strany: 2019, 139 - 144

The Tatras Mountain, located on the border between Slovakia and Poland, are the highest and the most significant mountains range within the Carpathian Mountains of Central Europe. Because of their altitude and former glaciations the Tatras Mountain are classified as an alpine massif. The most important and interesting natural elements of the Tatras Mountain alpine landscape represent glacial lakes. There are about 87 lakes of glacial origin in the Slovak part of the Tatras Mountain, the most of them are situated in the alpine zone (1 800–2 200 m a.s.l.) above the upper forest line. Hydrographic research of the glacial lakes in the Tatras Mountain has a long history since 1925, however the results of the surveys were different over the years due to technical limits of the survey instruments, their low precision as well as the extreme climate conditions with high altitude. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the application of modern hydrographic and geodetic instruments for bathymetric survey in the condition of the Tatras Mountain, which unlike the traditional instruments and techniques are characterized by high precession and efficiency. In the case study we demonstrate yet the most precise digital terrain model (DTM) of the glacial lake Batizovske pleso, created in software environment ArcGIS and based on the data from the bathymetric survey performed in 2018 by Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) EcoMapper and geodetic instrument GNSS Stonex.

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Sočuvka, V., Velísková, Y. 2019. Bathymetric surveys of Tatras glacial lakes: Case study – Batizovske pleso. In Acta Hydrologica Slovaca, vol. 20, no.2, pp. 139-144. 2644-4690. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2019-0020.02.0016

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Sočuvka, V., Velísková, Y. (2019). Bathymetric surveys of Tatras glacial lakes: Case study – Batizovske pleso. Acta Hydrologica Slovaca, 20(2), 139-144. 2644-4690. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/ahs-2019-0020.02.0016

Vydavateľ: Institute of Hydrology SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava, Slovakia

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