DESCRIPTION

LOOKNorth (Leading Operational Observations and Knowledge for the North) is a national Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research hosted by C-CORE. In collaboration with a broad network of industry, northern, business and research partners, LOOKNorth validates and drives commercialization of monitoring technologies to support safe and sustainable development of Canada’s northern natural resources. It promotes the use of remote sensing (RS) technologies in environmental monitoring for northern stakeholder groups.

LOOKNorth is mandated to:

Conduct information and technology gap analysis for northern resource development:

By sector (mining, petroleum, hydro-power and transportation)

Over various project life cycle phases

Facilitate information sharing among stakeholders in northern development:

Including industry, government, academia, aboriginal and northern peoples

Hosting workshops and forums on the applicability and use of RS technologies for data collection in support of decision-making

Guide research and development towards commercialization of technologies that can address information gaps

Support technology validation through:

Business case development

Co-funding RS technology validation demonstrations

LOOKNorth is committed to working with industry, federal departments, northern governments and aboriginal stakeholder groups to improve the application of RS technology in environmental monitoring as a way of improving decision-making and impacting land-use planning. Industry, communities and all levels of government are working toward new and better ways to address these challenges. LOOKNorth is part of that effort, focused on how RS technologies can be used to help reduce uncertainties, risk and cost in challenging environments.

 CONTACT DETAILS

LOOKNORTH

400 March RD, Ottawa,ON,K2K3H4

ph: 613-592-7700

Fax: 613-592-7701

Email: dennis.nazarenko@looknorth.org

wEB: www.looknorth.org