ILWIS GIS for Monitoring Landscapes in Tundra Ecosystems: Yamal Peninsula, Russia

• Main Authors: Lemenkova, Polina, Forbes, Bruce C., Kumpula, Timo
• Other Authors: Ocean University of China (OUC), Association of Geophysicists and Environmentalists of Serbia (AGES)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: Tundra; Environement; Image analyis; Image classification; landscape; Land cover and land use; Land cover change; Land cover detection; Land cover and land use changes; Mapping; GIS; GIS & Spatial Analyses; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [INFO.INFO-TI]Computer Science [cs]/Image Processing [eess.IV]; [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing; [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment/Ecosystems; [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment; [SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies; [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology; Yamal Peninsula; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01964395; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01964395/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01964395/file/Lemenkova_etal_Abstract_Yamal2012.pdf; https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7434236.v1

ISBN: 978-86-913953-5-3 International audience The paper focuses on the monitoring changes in Russian tundra landscapes and distribution of various land cover types in Yamal Peninsula, Russia, during the past two decades. Specific climate and environmental settings of the study area facilitate seasonal flooding, active erosion processing, permafrost distribution and local landslide formation. Technically, the research has been performed using ILWIS GIS applied for satellite images comparative analysis using GIS supervised classification methods.