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Airborne magnetic data provides insight into the subsurface geology and tectonic history. This dataset includes processed airborne magnetic data collected over Marguerite Bay during the 2023/2024 Antarctic field season. This survey was carried out as part of a wider UKRI Innovate UK Future Flight-3 SWARM project in collaboration with Windracers Ltd to demonstrate their Ultra Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as a platform for environmental science. As part of this project ~1600 km of new high resolution aeromagnetic data with a ground clearance of 500m was collected around Rothera research station, West Antarctica. Data were acquired using a GEMSys GSMP-35U UAV magnetometer mounted on a Windracers Ultra UAV. Magnetic line data is provided as comma separated ASCII file. This study was funded by Innovate UK through their Future flight challenge support for the "Protecting environments with unmanned aerial vehicle swarms" project (reference: 10023377). We thank BAS operations for their support and specifically the BAS air unit and ground support staff whose close cooperation and engagement with the UAV deployment made the project successful. We also thank staff at Windracers and Distributed avionics who provided remote support for UAV operations across the field season.
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Airborne gravity data provides insight into the regional subsurface geology and tectonic history. This dataset includes processed airborne data collected over Marguerite Bay using an iCorous strapdown gravity sensor. The gravity sensor was mounted in a Windracers Ultra UAV, serial TD-02. Gravity data was collected at a mean altitude of 500 m on nine flights between 120 and 260 km long, originating from Rothera Research Station. The flight pattern covered an area of 24 km by 75 km, with lines spaced 2 km apart. Data has an along line resolution of ~2 km. The survey targeted a tectonic break between different sectors of the Antarctic Peninsula identified in existing magnetic data. The survey was flown as part of the Innovate UK SWARM project demonstrating the utility of the Windracers Ultra as a platform for environmental science. This study was funded by Innovate UK through their Future flight challenge support for the "Protecting environments with unmanned aerial vehicle swarms" project (reference: 10023377). We thank BAS operations for their support and specifically the BAS air unit and ground support staff whose close cooperation and engagement with the UAV deployment made the project successful. We also thank staff at Windracers and Distributed avionics who provided remote support for UAV operations across the field season.
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3D vertically-polarised shear wave (Vsv) velocity model of West Antarctic uppermost mantle structure to 200 km depth developed using data from the 2016-2018 UK Antarctic Seismic Network (UKANET) and Polar Earth Observing Seismic Network (POLENET). The model was constructed from the combination of fundamental mode Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps developed by ambient noise (periods 8-25 seconds) and earthquake data two-plane wave analysis (periods 20-143 seconds). Composite ''local'' 1D Rayleigh wave phase velocity dispersion curves (periods 8-143 s) were extracted by sampling the 2D Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps at grid node locations spanning West Antarctica spaced at 100 km. The local 1D Rayleigh wave phase velocity dispersion curves were inverted for 1D shear wave (Vsv) structure to 200 km depth, and the ensemble of 1D shear wave (Vsv) profiles were subsequently gridded to produce the 3D shear wave (Vsv) model of West Antarctica uppermost mantle structure to 200 km depth. Funding was provided by the NERC standard grant NE/L006065/1.
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3D vertically-polarised shear wave (Vsv) velocity model of West Antarctic crustal structure developed using data from the 2016-2018 UK Antarctic Seismic Network (UKANET) and Polar Earth Observing Seismic Network (POLENET). Interstation Rayleigh and Love wave phase velocity dispersion measurements at periods of 8-25 seconds were extracted from seismic ambient noise cross-correlograms by automated frequency-time analysis (AFTAN). The ensemble of interstation Rayleigh wave dispersion measurements was used to develop 2D Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps of West Antarctica at periods of 8-25 seconds by Fast Marching Surface Tomography (FMST) on a grid with a node spacing of 0.75deg. ''Local'' 1D Rayleigh wave phase velocity dispersion curves were extracted by sampling the 2D Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps at grid node locations. The local 1D Rayleigh wave phase velocity dispersion curves were inverted for 1D shear wave (Vsv) structure to 40 km depth, and the ensemble of 1D shear wave (Vsv) profiles were subsequently gridded to produce the 3D shear wave (Vsv) model of West Antarctica from 10-40 km depth. Funding was provided by the NERC standard grant NE/L006065/1.
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