Evaluating the Floe Edge Service: how well can SAR imagery address Inuit community concerns around sea ice change and travel safety?

• Published in: The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien
• Main Authors: Laidler, Gita J., Hirose, Tom, Kapfer, Mark, Ikummaq, Theo, Joamie, Eric, Elee, Pootoogoo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Cape Dorset; Igloolik; Nunavut; Pangnirtung; inuit; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00347.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1541-0064.2010.00347.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00347.x

In response to increasing environmental and social changes in the past few decades, some Inuit hunters have been turning to scientific tools to help evaluate sea ice conditions. Simultaneously, there has been more scientific interest in understanding local scale processes through Inuit knowledge in...