OPERATIONAL ALL-WEATHER GREAT LAKES ICE INFORMATION SYSTEM
The system utilizes an X-band side-looking airborne radar (SLAR) for determining type, location, and areal distribution of the ice cover in the Great Lakes, and an airborne, S-band, down-looking short pulse radar for obtaining ice thickness. SLAR images along with hand-drawn interpretative ice charts for various winter shipping areas in the Great Lakes are broadcast to facsimile recorders aboard Great Lakes vessels via the MARAD marine VHF-F, radio network to assist such vessels in navigating both through and around the ice.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, 3rd, Proceedings, Edmonton, Alberta, September 22-24, 1975.
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Corporate Authors:
Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute
77 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa 4, ONo, Canada -
Authors:
- Gedney, R T
- Schertler, R J
- Mueller, R A
- Jirberg, R J
- MARK, H
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1975
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 73-82
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Ice; Information systems; Measurement; Navigation systems; Operations; Radar; Remote sensing; Side looking radar; Thickness
- Geographic Terms: Great Lakes
- Old TRIS Terms: Ice information systems; Ice thickness measurement
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Marine Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00151971
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 13 1977 12:00AM