New frontiers in remote sensing of periglacial landscapes and permafrost

• Main Authors: Grosse, Guido, Romanovsky, Vladimir, Goetz, Scott, Bartsch, Annett, Jones, Benjamin, Heim, Birgit
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Talik; International Polar Year; Peat; Peat plateau; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35821/; http://www.eucop4.org/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43739

Remote sensing has been a tool of choice for decades for studying periglacial landscape dynamics and for scaling-up field data. Remoteness, geographic extent, and harsh climates of study areas as well as logistical challenges in visiting them make aerial or satellite imagery key components of studie...