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

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dc.contributor.authorSegal, Rebecca
dc.contributor.supervisorScharien, Randall
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-06T20:37:08Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-09-06
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Geographyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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) the identification of northern community sea ice information needs that can be addressed using remote sensing, and 2) the creation of remote sensing-based products showing sea ice surface roughness information useful to community sea ice trafficability and safety. Thesis outcomes include the refinement and dissemination of information and products with these communities. Research methods involved interviews with northern community members that were analysed using thematic analysis, as well as quantitative assessments of sea ice roughness using satellite datasets. Maps of sea ice surface roughness were created using Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar and the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer, and were evaluated against fine-scale airborne LiDAR data.en_US
dc.description.embargo2020-07-31
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11129
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectArctic sea iceen_US
dc.subjectInuit knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectremote sensingen_US
dc.subjectsea ice roughnessen_US
dc.subjectsafety and navigationen_US
dc.subjectSynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)en_US
dc.subjectMulti-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR)en_US
dc.subjectcryosphereen_US
dc.subjectclimate changeen_US
dc.title“The best of both worlds” – connecting remote sensing and Arctic communities for safe sea ice travelen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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