Satellite photos aiding Inuit in hunt

IQALUIT - Inuit in Pond Inlet are using space-age tools help them with hunting at the floe edge – where the ice meets sea water. The European Space Agency’s Northern View Floe Edge Information Service, sends updated ice maps of inlets around Lancaster Sound to the community of Pond Inlet. Pond Inlet resident David Qamaniq says with global warming, Inuit elders are finding it hard to predict the weather and ice conditions. He says the satellite-based service makes it safer for hunters to travel, showing the location and conditions of the fast, always moving, always dangerous floe edge.

No comment - I just think it’s really cool :-)

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