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: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Guillaume; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lac Guillaume-Delisle; Umiujaq; Active layer thickness; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Thermokarst; Tundra
• 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

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...