Table of contents
Certificate of Original Authorship i
Certificate of Dissertation – Advisors’ consent iii
Certificate of Dissertation - Program Chair v
Acknowledgments vii
Abstract ix
List of figures xi
List of tables xv
Abbreviations: xvii
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background: 1
1.2 Sea Ice and its Parameters 2
1.3 Need for Study: 3
1.4 Aim: 4
1.5 Objectives: 4
1.6 Scope of Work: 5
2 LITERATURE STUDIES 7
3 RESEARCH DESIGN 9
3.1 Methodology: 9
3.2 Study Area: 10
3.3 Datasets used: 11
3.3.1 Conversion of SIC NetCDF layer to Raster: 11
3.3.2 Sea Ice Thickness Data: 13
3.3.3 Sea Ice Occurrence Probability: 14
3.3.4 Sea Ice Images: 15
3.3.5 Antarctica Mosaics from MODIS data: 16
4 STEPS FOR FRAMEWORK 17
4.1 Making Grid on the Study Area: 17
4.2 Defining Rules for Parameters: 18
4.3 Resampling of Datasets 19
4.4 Determining whether a Cell is Safe or Not Safe: 19
4.4.1 Extracting Raster values to the Grid Cells: 19
4.4.2 Assigning Cell Values based on Rules: 20
4.5 Route Analysis: 22
5 MULTI-DATE ROUTE ANALYSIS 29
5.1 Multi Date Analysis Framework: 29
5.2 33rd ISEA (2014) Details: 31
5.3 Creating buffers to give reference for date change: 32
5.4 Final Route for Bharati & Maitri: 33
5.5 Routes for Bharati: 34
5.5.1 Route to enter Bharati: 35
5.5.2 Route to exit Bharati: 38
5.6 Routes for Maitri: 41
5.6.1 Route to enter Maitri: 42
5.6.2 Route to exit Maitri: 46
6 FUTURE SCOPE 51
References liii
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