Empowering our communities to map rough ice and slush for safer sea-ice travel in Inuit Nunangat

帮助我们的社区绘制粗冰和雪泥地图，以确保因纽特努南加特的海冰旅行更加安全

基本信息

批准号：
NE/X004643/1
负责人：
Michel Tsamados
金额：
$ 76.28万
依托单位：
University College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FX004643%2F1
关键词：
Empowering our communities map rough

项目摘要

Sea-ice roughness, thickness and slush are key characteristics that determine safe and efficient travel for Inuit. The changing climate is negatively affecting these sea-ice characteristics causing increasedtravel accidents and search-and-rescue incidents. Sea ice is not only a hunting platform and travel highway, it is part of our culture and identity and changing sea-ice conditions are also negativelyaffecting our mental health, food security and cultural practices. By combining our Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ), satellite data and state-of-the-art uncrewed airborne vehicles (UAVs, ordrones), we will co-produce new information on sea ice and snow roughness and slush for the operational SmartICE Ice Travel Safety Maps. The production of these maps will be piloted in ourpartner communities of Arctic Bay, Gjoa Haven, Nain, Pond Inlet, Qikiqtarjuaq, and Salluit, and eventually be expanded to all SmartICE communities (>24) in Inuit Nunangat. Our approach will begrounded in IQ, and include a co-designed Inuit training program for UAV-based sea ice monitoring to augment the mature environmental data collection developed by SmartICE. We will adapt UAVs andsensors to collect high-resolution topographic and electromagnetic data for local travel safety maps, as well as ground-truth a series of novel satellite products of sea-ice thickness and roughness, based onoptical and micro-wave frequencies. With our Arctic Eider Society partner, a growing network of Inuit Nunangat communities will be able to access in near real-time these new satellite and in-situ dataproducts and SmartICE Ice Travel Safety Maps through the Indigenous Knowledge Social Network platform (SIKU). At the request f our Community Management Committees, the local travel safety mapswill also be distributed in paper format within communities.

海冰的粗糙度、厚度和雪泥是决定因纽特人安全高效旅行的关键特征。气候变化对这些海冰特性产生了负面影响，导致旅行事故和搜救事件增加。海冰不仅是狩猎平台和旅行高速公路，也是我们文化和身份的一部分，不断变化的海冰状况也对我们的心理健康、粮食安全和文化习俗产生负面影响。通过结合我们的因纽特人 Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ)、卫星数据和最先进的无人驾驶飞行器（无人机、无人机），我们将共同生成有关海冰和雪粗糙度以及雪泥的新信息，用于运行 SmartICE 冰上旅行安全地图。这些地图的制作将在Arctic Bay、Gjoa Haven、Nain、Pond Inlet、Qikiqtarjuaq 和Salluit 等合作伙伴社区进行试点，并最终扩展到因纽特努南加特的所有SmartICE 社区（>24）。我们的方法将以 IQ 为基础，包括共同设计的因纽特人培训计划，用于基于无人机的海冰监测，以增强 SmartICE 开发的成熟环境数据收集。我们将采用无人机和传感器来收集高分辨率地形和电磁数据，用于当地旅行安全地图，并基于光学和微波频率对一系列海冰厚度和粗糙度的新型卫星产品进行地面实况验证。通过我们的北极绒鸭协会合作伙伴，不断增长的因纽特努南加特社区网络将能够通过土著知识社交网络平台 (SIKU) 近乎实时地访问这些新卫星和现场数据产品以及 SmartICE 冰上旅行安全地图。应社区管委会的要求，当地的出行安全地图也将以纸质形式在社区内分发。