The Use of CORONA Images in Remote Sensing of Periglacial Geomorphology: An Illustration from the NE Siberian Coast

CORONA images have been used for the mapping of periglacial features on the Bykovsky Peninsula and adjacent Khorogor Valley in northeast Siberia. Features, mapped and analysed within a geographic information system include thermokarst depressions, thermo-erosional valleys,thermo-erosional cirques, t...

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Published in:Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
Main Authors: Grosse, Guido, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Kunitsky, V. V., Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2005
Subjects:
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
Thermokarst
Siberia
Online Access:https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/9254/
https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/9254/1/Gro2003h.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.509
https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.19764
https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.19764.d001
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Summary:CORONA images have been used for the mapping of periglacial features on the Bykovsky Peninsula and adjacent Khorogor Valley in northeast Siberia. Features, mapped and analysed within a geographic information system include thermokarst depressions, thermo-erosional valleys,thermo-erosional cirques, thermokarst lakes, thermokarst lagoons and pingos. More than 50% of the area is strongly influenced by thermally-induced subsidence. Thermokarst in the area is probably less active today than in the early-middle Holocene.

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