Land cover classification for Kytalyk / Chokurdakh, Indigirka Lowland , Sakha (Yakutia), Russia ...
Permafrost‐affected ecosystems are important components in the global carbon (C) cycle that, despite being vulnerable to disturbances under climate change, remain poorly understood. This dataset provides high-resolution land cover data for the Kytalyk / Chokurdakh study area located at the Berelekh...
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| Language: | English |
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PANGAEA
2018
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.896769 https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.896769 |
| Summary: | Permafrost‐affected ecosystems are important components in the global carbon (C) cycle that, despite being vulnerable to disturbances under climate change, remain poorly understood. This dataset provides high-resolution land cover data for the Kytalyk / Chokurdakh study area located at the Berelekh River in the Indigirka lowlands, eastern Siberia, Russia.The land cover classification was constructed from very high spatial resolution (2 m) GeoEye-1 (DigitalGlobe, 19 August 2010) satellite imagery. It was used to map soil organic carbon (SOC) and vegetation biomass over an area dominated by a floodplain and thermokarst basins (Alas). We argue that vegetation dynamics and biomass accumulation are unlikely to offset mineralization of thawed permafrost C and that landscape‐scale reworking of SOC represents the largest potential changes to C cycling. ... : The dataset projection is: EPSG:32655. For more details on the generation of this dataset, please see Siewert et al. (2015) ... |
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