Report on the seminar "Problems of Ice Navigation"

Abstract

The First Seminar on the Problems of Ice Navigation was held at National Institute of Polar Research on October 12th, 1984. The objective was to review the present scientific knowledge of sea ice and technological problems relating to ice navigation, in particular in the Antarctic, and to seek the possibility of cooperative research on ice navigation in scientific and technological aspects. Discussed subjects were as follows : 1) Distribution and characteristics of sea ice and survey methods, 2) Sea ice characteristics in the vicinity of Lutzow-Holm Bay revealed from satellite image analysis, 3) Ice navigation of icebreakers FUJI and SHIRASE, 4) Sea ice problems in the shipbuilding technology, 5) Sea ice observation by remote-sensing techniques, 6) Sea ice thickness measurement by an impulse radar. Results of discussion were useful as a basis for future research.