Iceinspec

To develop app that enables these hunters to make scientifically informed decisions that reduce their vulnerability to environmental hazards. This tool will:

• Create a local record of climate change;
• Draw attention to problems in the community related to climate change;
• Increase cross-cultural communication among scientists and the community; and
• Support efforts of language revitalization and transfer of intergenerational knowledge.

Our solution consists of two parts. In the first part a sensor is used on the embedded device, to measure the current temperature, humidity and calculate the heat index. The data is then transmitted to the application by using the bluetooth low energy technology.

The second part, distributable data from NSIDC stored in a public database and then downloaded to our application.
The measurement of the temperature is then used to give an estimate of the thickness of the sea ice, from the database.

• Dataset description (NSIDC): http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/icebridge/idcsi4/index.html

• Dataset source (NSIDC): ftp://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/SAN2/ICEBRIDGE/IDCSI4.001/

• Database channel (Thingspeak): https://thingspeak.com/channels/110619

• Xcode & Arduino IDE
  Database: https://github.com/magicalpanda/MagicalRecord
  JSON data: https://github.com/SwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON Bluetooth serial: https://github.com/hoiberg/HM10-BluetoothSerial-iOS