Date

Activities and Accomplishments

Jul. 05 to Dec. 05

Launch of first set of operational services including iceberg monitoring, sea ice information, river ice and snow monitoring. To be provided in Canada, the Barents Sea, the Baltic Sea, Germany and Antarctica.

Further extension activities added to portfolio including:

• Snow monitoring in mountainous areas
• Development of Polar View climate change indicators
• Backward trajectories of sea ice drift (lead: NPI)
• Antarctic high-resolution ice charting in Norwegian area of interest

Members of Polar View attend the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) meeting held in Ottawa in October. Collaboration between the group and Polar View is planned with specific reference to International Polar Year.

Agreement reached with the Canadian International Polar Year secretariat, that Polar View will take a leading role in discussions concerning data acquisition, access and policies.

Polar View holds first team progress meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss service developments, Polar View identity, deliverables, team structure and future plans.

Jan. 06 to Apr. 06

24 service level agreements (SLAs) finalized with 20 users. New SLAs finalized in March 2006 with the following users:

• Ice Advisors Ltd, Finland
• Royal Arctic Line, Denmark
• Icelandic Meteorological Office, Iceland
• Ministry of Civil Defense, Sakha Republic, Russia

Polar View provides 1493 products to its end users, representing 90% of the planned volume of service delivery. Most products are delivered on a daily or near-daily basis. Polar View services are provided in the following regions:

• Arctic and Antarctic
• Northern and Central Europe
• Baltic Sea
• Canada, Northwest Atlantic and Greenland

Ongoing media coverage of Polar View services testify to the increased public awareness of Polar View and the recognition of its contribution to safe operations in ice infested waters. Polar View services are reported on in national print media (Finland), national television (Canada) and an official government news release (Canada).

Polar View officially endorsed as a designated activity under the International Polar Year (IPY).

Polar View holds 2nd Progress Meeting in Bologna, Italy.

May 06 to Jul. 06

Service level agreements (SLA) signed with 40 user organizations from 12 countries, the number of signed agreements has doubled over the course of Phase 1.

River ice monitoring products used by emergency response officials to direct evacuation efforts in areas affected by flooding along the Lena River in Sakha Republic, Russia.

Polar View continues collaboration with the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) on a joint contribution to IPY.

Service portfolio expanded, and new partners brought into the team to provide sea ice and iceberg monitoring in the Antarctic and snow monitoring in northern and central Europe.

Polar View delivers more than 1900 products in the service lines sea ice and iceberg surveillance, river ice monitoring and glacier and snow mapping. The total number of products delivered represents 90% of the planned volume of service delivery.

Aug. 06 to Sep. 06

From the beginning to the end of Year 1, the level of user involvement has steadily increased. Polar View currently has 44 core end users who have signed 51 service level agreements.

Annual review of Polar View held in July 2006. The levels of planned and delivered volumes of service were in general agreement, with a total of 2500 products delivered during Year 1.

IICWG and Polar View agree on collaborating on the implementation of a dedicated web portal for the provision of operational sea ice information for IPY.

Oct. 06 to Dec. 06

Polar View increases promotional team to include the following members:

• Peter Viskum Jorgensen (DMI) - Coordinator of European promotional activities
• International Polar Foundation - media outreach and communications

Expansion of service lines to include:

• Lake ice monitoring
• Expansion of iceberg monitoring service
• Arctic sea ice thickness mapping
• Global sea ice monitoring

Polar View holds 3rd Progress Meeting in St. John's Newfoundland.

Jan. 07 to Mar. 07

All service lines are active, with a total of 629 products delivered since January 2007 across the following service areas:

• Sea ice and icebergs: 562 products delivered
• River and lake ice: 44 products delivered
• Glaciers and snow: 23 products delivered

Polar View services and activities featured in numerous news stories, press releases and radio/TV interviews.

Polar View team members participant in a number of polar related conferences and meetings including:

• Arctic Frontiers, Tromso
• Applied Remote Sensing in Mt Regions, Bolzano
• National Remote Sensing Conference, Stockholm
• WMO Day, Geneva

Apr. 07 to Jun. 07

Services successfully delivered across the Polar View network, with a total of 758 products delivered across the following service areas during the this three month period:

• Sea ice and icebergs: 587 products delivered
• River and lake ice: 148 products delivered
• Glaciers and snow: 23 products delivered

Extension services, including a lake ice monitoring portal, expansion of iceberg monitoring service, arctic sea ice thickness mapping and global sea ice monitoring are underway.

Polar View holds 5th Progress Meeting in Tromso, Norway.

Jul. 07 to Sep. 07

All Polar View services active across the network including Lake Ice Monitoring, which now has a dedicated web portal for delivery of the monitoring services in Canada. (nunavik.lakeice.ca).Work continues on developing a long-term strategy for sustainability.