Comparing spectral characteristics of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data for Arctic permafrost regions

• Main Authors: Runge, Alexandra, Grosse, Guido
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; The Sentinel; lena delta; permafrost; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48613/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48613/1/Runge_Grosse_2018_Comparing_Landsat-8_and_Sentinel-2_LenaDelta_Symposium_Poster.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.8fd8851b-79b6-4e88-91ce-32a5c75b52eb; https://hdl.handle.net/

Optical remote sensing in the Arctic is highly restricted by frequent cloud cover and low illumination angles, which decreases the amount of useable images during the short vegetation period considerably. As a result, even the more than 30-year long and continuous Landsat mission archive only contai...