Assessing Permafrost Degradation and Land Cover Changes (1986–2009) using Remote Sensing Data over Umiujaq, Sub‐Arctic Québec

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Beck, Inga, Ludwig, Ralf, Bernier, Monique, Lévesque, Esther, Boike, Julia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Active layer thickness; Hudson Bay; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Thermokarst; Tundra; Umiujaq
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1839; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fppp.1839; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp.1839

Abstract Recent land cover changes in the Umiujaq region of northern Québec, Canada, have been quantified in order to estimate changes in the extent of discontinuous permafrost that strongly affect the forest‐tundra ecotone. Changes in the areas covered by different vegetation types, thermokarst lak...