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CCIC WorkshopWhitehorse
LOOKNorth Investing in remote sensing in a
changing Northern Canada
  • January, 2012

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LOOKNorth
  • Designated Centre of Excellence for
    Commercialization Research
  • One of 27 across Canada
  • Announced December 2010
  • Launched January 2011

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CECR Approach
  • Centers that advance research and facilitate
    commercialization
  • Four priority areas
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources and Energy
  • Health and Life Sciences
  • and Information and Communications Technologies.
  • Bridging the gap between innovation and
    technology allowing technologies to get to the
    market more easily
  • Stimulating SMEs, generating jobs, positioning
    Canada as a technology leader
  • Creating partnerships, developing a network of
    government and industry representatives

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C-CORE Technical Areas
Remote Sensing
Ice Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering
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LOOKNorth Vision
  • Promoting safe and sustainable development of
    Canadas northern natural resources
  • Stimulate use of remote sensing technology into
    the resource sector
  • Support creation of wealth in Canada

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How we go about doing that
  • Work with industry to understand their needs and
    info gaps
  • Mining, oil and gas, hydro-power, shipping
  • Potential for other sectors
  • Use remote sensing technologies to provide
    resource sector clients with relevant information
    to support decision making
  • Develop opportunities
  • Small business
  • Researchers
  • Northerners

Courtesy of Diavik Mines
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Remote sensing
  • "Remote sensing is the science (and to some
    extent, art) of acquiring information about the
    Earth's surface without actually being in contact
    with it. This is done by sensing and recording
    reflected or emitted energy and processing,
    analyzing, and applying that information."

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Optical and Radar Comparison
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Optical
2m Panchromatic Formosat-2
3m SAR COSMO-SkyMed
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RS Applications in the North
  • TRACS Program
  • NRCan GSC Project
  • Surficial sediment mapping using satellites
  • Land cover mapping in permafrost environments
  • Infrastructure risk assessment

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River Ice Monitoring
  • Monitoring sites throughout North
  • Knowing ice-build in terms of location(e.g.,
    towns, highways)
  • Ice classification image showing river ice types
  • Estimated ice thickness and
  • Multi-date change analysis image

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Sector Assessments
  • Identifying and documenting industry challenges
  • Information needs over lifecycle
  • Interviews, workshops, research
  • Publish results in market reports
  • Funding different programs based on sector needs
  • Drives our activities

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Technology Validations
  • Investing in projects that validate a remote
    sensing solution to the resource sector client
  • Themed calls based on sector assessments
  • Linking SMEs with industry partners
  • Provide co-funding of 50 up to 200,000 for
    projects
  • Lead to operational utilization

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RD Program
  • Understanding applications that are uncertain
  • Current themes
  • -Iceberg deterioration/ lifecycles
  • -Oil spills in ice
  • -Iceroads/ allweather roads planning.
  • Scan/evaluate potential technologies

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Northern Outreach
  • Northern Sector Assessment
  • Understanding political, regulatory and social
    environment
  • Identifying relevant stakeholder groups and their
    needs
  • Building partnerships, opening up opportunities
    in the North

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Summing up
  • Develop business opportunities
  • Resource sector information needs (industry,
    government and community)
  • Relevant RD to address those needs
  • SMEs capable of supplying the solution
  • Co-fund technology validation projects
  • 200k (50) of project cost, 2 years, etc
  • Getting other partners on board
  • Assessing opportunities in the North
  • Where there are needs connected to industry and
    government
  • Finding ways of bringing in new partners

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Thank-you! Email harry.borlase_at_looknorth.org Phon
e 709-697-4804
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