Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry
In permafrost areas, seasonal freeze-thaw cycles of active layer result in upward and downward movements of the ground. Additionally, relatively uniform thawing of the ice-rich layer at the permafrost table, contributing to net long-term surface lowering, was reported for some Arctic locations. We u...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:48095 2024-09-15T18:11:36+00:00 Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry Antonova, Sofia Sudhaus, Henriette Strozzi, Tazio Zwieback, Simon Kääb, Andreas Heim, Birgit Langer, Moritz Bornemann, Niko Boike, Julia 2018-09 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48095/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.1fd822e9-8b1a-44c1-a614-bf6c76e07689 unknown Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein Antonova, S. , Sudhaus, H. , Strozzi, T. , Zwieback, S. , Kääb, A. , Heim, B. orcid:0000-0003-2614-9391 , Langer, M. orcid:0000-0002-2704-3655 , Bornemann, N. orcid:0000-0001-5415-509X and Boike, J. orcid:0000-0002-5875-2112 (2018) Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry , 15th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, 10 September 2018 - 14 September 2018 . doi:10.2312/GFZ.LIS.2018.002 <https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.LIS.2018.002> , hdl:10013/epic.1fd822e9-8b1a-44c1-a614-bf6c76e07689 EPIC315th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, 2018-09-10-2018-09-14Potsdam, Germany, Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein Conference notRev 2018 ftawi https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.LIS.2018.002 2024-06-24T04:21:00Z In permafrost areas, seasonal freeze-thaw cycles of active layer result in upward and downward movements of the ground. Additionally, relatively uniform thawing of the ice-rich layer at the permafrost table, contributing to net long-term surface lowering, was reported for some Arctic locations. We use a simple method to quantify surface lowering (subsidence) and uplift in a yedoma area of the Lena River Delta, Siberian Arctic, using reference rods installed deeply in permafrost. The seasonal subsidence was 1.7 ±1.5 cm in the cold summer of 2013 and 4.8 ± 2 cm in the warm summer of 2014. Furthermore, we measured a pronounced multi-year net subsidence of 9.3 ± 5.7 cm from spring 2013 to the end of summer 2017. Additionally, we observed a high spatial variability of subsidence of up to 6 cm across a sub-meter horizontal scale. This variability limits the usage of a pointwise measurement for a validation of spatially extensive remote sensing products. In summer 2013, we accompanied our field measurements with Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) on repeat-pass TerraSAR-X (TSX) data over the same study area. Interferometry was strongly affected by a fast phase coherence loss, atmospheric artifacts, and possibly the choice of reference point. A cumulative ground displacement map, built from a continuous interferogram stack, did not reveal a meaningful signal on the upland but showed a distinct subsidence of up to 2 cm in most of the thermokarst basins. There, the spatial pattern of displacement corresponded well with relative surface wetness identified with the near infra-red band of a high-resolution optical image. Our study suggests that (i) although X-band SAR has serious limitations for ground movement monitoring in permafrost landscapes, it can provide valuable information for specific environments like thermokarst basins, and (ii) due to the high sub-pixel spatial variability of ground movements, a validation scheme needs to be developed and implemented for future DInSAR studies in ... Conference Object Ice lena river permafrost Thermokarst Siberia Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) |
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In permafrost areas, seasonal freeze-thaw cycles of active layer result in upward and downward movements of the ground. Additionally, relatively uniform thawing of the ice-rich layer at the permafrost table, contributing to net long-term surface lowering, was reported for some Arctic locations. We use a simple method to quantify surface lowering (subsidence) and uplift in a yedoma area of the Lena River Delta, Siberian Arctic, using reference rods installed deeply in permafrost. The seasonal subsidence was 1.7 ±1.5 cm in the cold summer of 2013 and 4.8 ± 2 cm in the warm summer of 2014. Furthermore, we measured a pronounced multi-year net subsidence of 9.3 ± 5.7 cm from spring 2013 to the end of summer 2017. Additionally, we observed a high spatial variability of subsidence of up to 6 cm across a sub-meter horizontal scale. This variability limits the usage of a pointwise measurement for a validation of spatially extensive remote sensing products. In summer 2013, we accompanied our field measurements with Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) on repeat-pass TerraSAR-X (TSX) data over the same study area. Interferometry was strongly affected by a fast phase coherence loss, atmospheric artifacts, and possibly the choice of reference point. A cumulative ground displacement map, built from a continuous interferogram stack, did not reveal a meaningful signal on the upland but showed a distinct subsidence of up to 2 cm in most of the thermokarst basins. There, the spatial pattern of displacement corresponded well with relative surface wetness identified with the near infra-red band of a high-resolution optical image. Our study suggests that (i) although X-band SAR has serious limitations for ground movement monitoring in permafrost landscapes, it can provide valuable information for specific environments like thermokarst basins, and (ii) due to the high sub-pixel spatial variability of ground movements, a validation scheme needs to be developed and implemented for future DInSAR studies in ... |
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Antonova, Sofia Sudhaus, Henriette Strozzi, Tazio Zwieback, Simon Kääb, Andreas Heim, Birgit Langer, Moritz Bornemann, Niko Boike, Julia Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry |
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Antonova, Sofia Sudhaus, Henriette Strozzi, Tazio Zwieback, Simon Kääb, Andreas Heim, Birgit Langer, Moritz Bornemann, Niko Boike, Julia |
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Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry |
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Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry |
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Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry |
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Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry |
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Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry |
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thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern siberia, measured in situ and estimated from terrasar-x interferometry |
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Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein |
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Ice lena river permafrost Thermokarst Siberia |
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Ice lena river permafrost Thermokarst Siberia |
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EPIC315th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, 2018-09-10-2018-09-14Potsdam, Germany, Bibliothek Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein |
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Antonova, S. , Sudhaus, H. , Strozzi, T. , Zwieback, S. , Kääb, A. , Heim, B. orcid:0000-0003-2614-9391 , Langer, M. orcid:0000-0002-2704-3655 , Bornemann, N. orcid:0000-0001-5415-509X and Boike, J. orcid:0000-0002-5875-2112 (2018) Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry , 15th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium, Potsdam, Germany, 10 September 2018 - 14 September 2018 . doi:10.2312/GFZ.LIS.2018.002 <https://doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.LIS.2018.002> , hdl:10013/epic.1fd822e9-8b1a-44c1-a614-bf6c76e07689 |
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