Observations of Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics Using the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Rango, Albert, Greaves, James R., DeRycke, Richard J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1973
• Subjects: Arctic medicine; Biochemistry; Ethnobotany; Medicines; Native peoples; Plants (Biology); Traditional knowledge; Amund Ringnes Island; Arctic; Canada; Cornwall; Cornwall Island; Hendriksen Strait; Beaufort Sea; Queen Elizabeth Islands; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65986

This study shows that ERTS-l, launched by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in July 1972, can be used to make synoptic observations of dynamic changes in arctic sea ice . Each data swath of ERTS-l is 185 kilometres wide at the surface and is repeated once every 18 days. . Becaus...