Application of Landsat-7 remote sensing data and GIS for the quantification of Holocene thermokarst effects in the Lena-Anabar coastal area of the Laptev Sea, NE Siberia

• Main Authors: Grosse, Guido, Malthus, T. J., Schirrmeister, Lutz, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Anabar; Laptev Sea; New Siberian Islands; Ice; laptev; permafrost; Thermokarst; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/11794/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.22240

During the Last Glacial Maximum, the global sea level was 120-140 m below the present one and the shore line of the Laptev Sea was situated several 100 km further north. Remains of the former periglacial shelf landscape are preserved in the recent Laptev Sea coastal lowlands and the New Siberian Isl...