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

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-107

  Laidler, Gita J ^a   Hirose, Tom ^b   Kapfer, Mark ^b   Ikummaq, Theo ^c   Joamie, Eric ^c   Elee, Pootoogoo ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Noetix Research Inc   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Baffin Island; climate change; Inuit knowledge; Nunavut; remote sensing; safety; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NAVIGATION AID; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; CAPE DORSET; DORSET ISLAND; IGLOOLIK; NUNAVUT; PANGNIRTUNG;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79953285478     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00347.x     Document Type: Article

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