The Role of Imaging Radar in the Development of the Canadian Arctic: Background and Applications

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Sutton, Jeff
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
• Subjects: Climate change; Ice cover; Ice forecasting; Marine transportation; Meteorology; Movement; Ocean engineering; Remote sensing; Sea ice; Spatial distribution; SAR; SLAR; Cornwallis Island waters; Nunavut; Cornwallis Island; Devon Island waters; Arctic; Canada; Cornwallis; Devon Island; Arctique*; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64632

Imaging radars have been in use in the Canadian Arctic for over 20 years. Initially the use was sporadic, as the relatively new, declassified technology in the form of real aperture side-looking airborne radars (SLAR) was flown and the results studied. This situation existed until the late 1970s, wh...