Thermal Imaging and Physiological Analysis of Cold-Climate Caribou-Skin Clothing

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Hill, Richard W., Tattersall, Glenn J., Campbell, Kevin L., Reinfort, Breanne, Breit, Ana M., Riewe, Rick R., Humphries, Murray M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; circumpolar clothing; infrared thermography; Inuit; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer; skin clothing; Arctique; vêtement circumpolaire; thermographie infrarouge; renne; vêtement en peau; Renne; Arctique*; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/69909

Protective clothing is essential for human existence in the Arctic, and caribou-skin clothing has played a pivotalrole for millennia. Although people with northern experience often extol caribou-skin clothing, few scientific studies have investigated its properties. We used infrared thermal imaging...