The use of Landsat-ETM Data, Digital Elevation Models and GIS Analyses for Quantification of Holocene Thermokarst: An Example From the Lena-Anabar Coastal Region (NE Siberia)

• Main Authors: Grosse, Guido, Schirrmeister, Lutz
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Anabar; Arctic; Laptev Sea; Global warming; Ice; laptev; permafrost; Thermokarst; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/11793/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.22239

Ice super-saturated permafrost deposits, formed syn-genetically during the Late Pleistocene, are widely distributed in coastal lowland regions of Arctic NE Siberia. The ice content of the silty deposits (up to 160 weight-percent compared to dry mass) makes them very susceptible for large-area thawin...