SmartICE Sea Ice Monitoring & Information Inc.

$472,253.00 CAD

≈ 6 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2023-2024
Agreement period
April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2027
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2023-2024-Q2-1005814

Published purpose

This project will develop new radio-frequency (RF) instrumentation for, and in partnership with, Indigenous communities to monitor those components of their traditional trails that pass over frozen lakes and rivers (hereafter called Winter Trails). In doing so, it will integrate Indigenous knowledge of ice dynamics and travel safety into the design and testing processes. The project will also co-create a training curriculum for community members to operate and deploy the instrumentation, create ice-condition travel maps and share the ice information products within and between communities.

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