How many people in the Arctic regions currently use geospatial information in their daily lives?
I can only really speak about Northern Canada. We have in total about 80 fairly large native communities in northern Canada, and probably about 30 or 40% of them are using geospatial data at this time to manage land use and development. For each community, there is a lot of geospatial information out there that can be useful to them. At the Territorial level (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), they are all using quite a lot of geospatial information to do their job. What can northern communities do with the geospatial information gathered? They often use the more high resolution images to plan the development of their towns, so they can determine where to build houses or other structures, for example. At the departmental level they use larger-scale images for managing land use, monitoring caribou herds and their movement, providing navigation information to fishermen, resolving land claims, monitoring water resources, or making surveys for mineral or oil exploration. For exampl
