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Space Technologies for Enhancing the Resilience and Sustainability of Indigenous Reindeer Husbandry in the Russian ArcticTo adapt successfully to the major changes - climate, environment, economic, social and industrial - which have taken place across the Arctic. in recent years, indigenous communities such as reindeer herders must become increasingly empowered with the best available technologies to add to their storehouse of traditional knowledge. Remotely-sensed data and observations are providing increased capabilities for monitoring, risk mapping, and surveillance of parameters critical to the characterization of pasture quality and migratory routes, such as vegetation distribution, snow cover, infrastructure development, and pasture damages due to fires. This paper describes a series of remote sensing capabilities, which are useful to reindeer husbandry, and gives the results of the first year of a project, "Reindeer Mapper", which is a remote sensing and GIs-based system to bring together space technologies with indigenous knowledge for sustainable reindeer husbandry in the Russian Arctic. In this project, reindeer herders and scientists are joining together to utilize technologies to create a system for collecting and sharing space-based and indigenous knowledge in the Russian Arctic. The "Reindeer Mapper" system will help make technologies more readily available to the herder community for observing, data collection and analysis, monitoring, sharing, communications, and dissemination of information - to be integrated with traditional, local knowledge. This paper describes some of the technologies which comprise the system including an intranet system to enable to the team members to work together and share information electronically, remote sensing data for monitoring environmental parameters important to reindeer husbandry (e.g., SAR, Landsat, AVHRR, MODIS), indigenous knowledge about important environmental parameters, acquisition of ground- based measurements, and the integration of all useful data sets for more informed decision-making.
Document ID
20050210011
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Maynard, Nancy G.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Yurchak, Boris S.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Sleptsov, Yuri A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Turi, Johan Mathis
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Mathlesen, Svein D.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2005
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE), Global Monitoring for Sustainability and Security
Location: Saint Petersburg
Country: Russia
Start Date: June 20, 2005
End Date: June 24, 2005
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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