The Arctic Eider Society
Advancing Canada's role in earth observation with SIKU: Enhancing sea ice safety and climate monitoring by mobilizing Inuit expertise and EO data through machine learning — This project builds on the Arctic Eider Society's online platform and mobile app called SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social Network, to deliver an enhanced SIKU Ice Map. The project will incorporate RADARSAT Constellation Mission data and other satellite imagery, observations made by Inuit community members, drone data, and machine learning techniques to identify dangerous conditions such as polynyas within the landfast ice. It will create the first Indigenous-trained algorithm delivering EO-derived products for the benefit of safe sea ice travel and climate change research, including the classification of EO observations into both Inuktitut and Western scientific sea ice terminologies.