As a part of the ARKKI project, an international Arctic Navigation Workshop was arranged at Lapland Hotel Olos, Muonio, Finland, on April 16th-18th, 2018. A summary of the program is given below. A more detailed version is available for those interested.
We wish to thank all the workshop participants, particularly for their contributions in the form of keynote talks, panel discussions, and active engagement in the expert working groups!
Monday, 16 April 2018
- 15:00–19:00
- Registration open; coffee and snacks. Possibility for winter activities (cross-country and downhill ski rental as well as snowshoe rental available)
- 19:00–22:00
- Aurora Borealis show & Pre-workshop dinner (Aurora intelligent road and Aurora entertainment)
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
- 08:30–09:00
- Registration and coffee
- 09:00–09:20
- Opening keynotes for Arctic navigation, Päivi Antikainen, Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications; Aleksi Härkönen, Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 09:20–09:40
- Ice Navigation, Dr. Norvald Kjerstad, NTNU, Norway
- 09:40–10:00
- GNSS Integrity in the Arctic, Dr. Todd Walter, Stanford University, USA
- 10:00–11:30
- High‐level panel discussion 1: Challenges and Opportunities in Arctic Navigation 2030, moderated by Demos Helsinki
- 11:30–12:30
- Lunch
- 12:30–14:15
- High‐level panel discussion 2: Needs of Different Transport Modes in the Arctic, moderated by Demos Helsinki
- 14:15–14:30
- User perspective: ARKKI online survey results and group work initiation, Dr. Heidi Kuusniemi, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute
- 14:30–16:00
- Coffee and moderated working groups (Land, Maritime, Air, SAR, Business)
- 16:30–19:00
- Lapland in winter time: program approved by Santa Claus and his reindeer: visit to Lapland Proving Ground and Veli Koljonen’s gallery home
- 20:00–22:00
- Gala Dinner
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
- 09:20–09:40
- Methods for Ice-Awareness, Dr. Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
- 09:40–10:00
- GNSS-based Positioning Solutions for Automated Driving in Arctic Conditions, Prof. Jarkko Koskinen, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute
- 10:00–12:00
- High‐level panel discussion 3: Emerging Arctic Geospatial Business Opportunities, moderated by Demos Helsinki
- 12:00–13:00
- Lunch
- 13:00–14:00
- Summary of Results from Working Groups
- 14:00–14:10
- Introduction to the Solutions Road Map
- 14:10–15:10
- Learning Café for Road Map
- 15:10–15:30
- Ionospheric Scintillation in the Arctic, Dr. Susan Skone, University of Calgary
- 15:30–15:50
- Positioning Solutions in the Arctic – The Aurora Snowbox Innovation Platform and Crowdsourcing, Dr. Martti Kirkko-Jaakkola, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute
- 15:50–16:00
- Summing up and farewell, Seija Miettinen-Bellevergue, Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications;
Heidi Kuusniemi, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute - 16:30
- Transport to the airport
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