Assessing Permafrost Degradation and Land Cover Changes (1986-2009) using Remote Sensing Data over Umiujaq, Sub-Arctic Québec
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 lakes, and d...
Published in: | Permafrost and Periglacial Processes |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2015
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Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37690/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37690/1/Beck_et_al-2015-Permafrost_and_Periglacial_Processes.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1839 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45298 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45298.d001 |