Exploring the applicability of high temporal resolution SAR for monitoring permafrost landscapes

• Main Authors: Stettner, Samuel, Lantuit, Hugues, Bartsch, Annett, Heim, Birgit, Grosse, Guido, Roth, Achim, Widhalm, Barbara, Antonova, Sofia, Zwieback, Simon
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Herschel; Herschel Island; Ice; lena delta; permafrost; polar night; Siberia; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41194/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41194/1/2016-05_ESA-LPS_poster_Stettner.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48136; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48136.d001

Permafrost is stated as an essential climate variable by the World Meteorological Organization and is an important physical landscape component of high-latitude environments. The variability of the permafrost ecosystem parameters soil moisture (SM) as well as freeze-thaw (FT) has a strong impact on...