For maritime navigation in the Arctic, sea ice charts are an essential tool, which still to this day is drawn manually by professional ice analysts. The total Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) is the ...
A newly established consortium is going to develop a network for low Earth orbit satellites delivering ice chart data to ships at sea. A new research project called MARIOT (Maritime IoT) is going to ...
W hen the area near Antarctica covered by sea ice fell to 1.8m km 2 (800,000 square miles) on February 19th—the smallest extent since satellite-based data became available in 1978—few climatologists ...