Frequent visitors to LJWorld.com may remember this project on Kansas University’s Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, or CReSIS.Well, CReSIS is in the news again, this time in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review. Once again, the organization’s unmanned aerial vehicle, which would be used to get a fix on the depth of ice sheets in distant places, is the focus.From the article:”Together with groups at other institutions, the Kansas team is pushing technology advancements to get a better fix on ice melt rates, ice thicknesses, and the accelerating rate at which glaciers are moving toward the ocean, which could accelerate the rate of sea-level rise.””The aircraft will leverage a powerful radar technology honed at the university. The radar, developed jointly with other institutions, is unique in its ability to provide a detailed picture of ice layers and, in particular, the boundary between ice and ground, which is helpful in efforts to understand how fast ice sheets might slide into the ocean.”CReSIS expects its unmanned aerial vehicle to make first flight sometime next summer.