“The best of both worlds” – connecting remote sensing and Arctic communities for safe sea ice travel

• Main Author: Segal, Rebecca
• Other Authors: Scharien, Randall
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic sea ice; Inuit knowledge; remote sensing; sea ice roughness; safety and navigation; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR); cryosphere; climate change; Arctic; Cambridge Bay; Kugluktuk; Nunavut; Climate change; inuit; Kitikmeot; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11129

This thesis examines the role of remote sensing technology in providing information to northern residents of Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay, Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, Western Canadian Arctic, for the purpose of improving sea ice trafficability and safety. The main objectives of this thesis include 1...