Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: physical sciences, sea ice, remote sensing
| Principal Investigator: | Mueller, Derek (1) |
| Licence Number: | 14659 |
| Organization: | Canadian Ice Service |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2010
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| Issued: | Mar 03, 2010 |
| Project Team: | Jon Biggar (Field Supervisor, Canadian Hydrographic Service) |
Objective(s): The Canadian Ice Service is currently exploring the use of satellite imagery to identify and track ice islands by monitoring where some of the dozens of ice islands are in real time.
Project Description: The Canadian Ice Service is currently exploring the use of satellite imagery to identify and track ice islands. To fully evaluate these techniques, it is important to have independent confirmation of where the ice islands are drifting. By deploying several tracking beacons on the surface of ice islands we can monitor where some of the dozens of ice islands are in real time. Our results will also be used to create ice charts and advise mariners of these ice hazards in Canadian waters. Several (1 to 5) tracking beacons will be deployed between March and May 2010 near Borden Island by scientists who will be working nearby on a hydrographic survey. They will be placed on ice islands using a helicopter or possibly dropped from an airplane. The ice islands may drift south through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago or to the southwest toward the Beaufort Sea. Position data will be publically available on the sailwx site (for example, see below). We have advised Sachs Harbour and Tuktoyuktuk (ice islands may drift within several hundred kilometers of these communities) of our intentions to deploy these beacons and will send a report once the beacons have been deployed that will detail how they can track the ice islands online. Any published research papers will be forwarded to these communities. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from 1-Mar-2010 to 1-May-2010.
