Monitoring permafrost environments with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors

Permafrost occupies approximately 24% of the exposed land area in the Northern Hemisphere. It is an important element of the cryosphere and has strong impacts on hydrology, biological processes, land surface energy budget, and infrastructure. For several decades, surface air temperatures in the high...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Lingxiao
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2018
Subjects:
500
550
FOS Earth and related environmental sciences
Arctic
Nunavik
Signalen
Leitet
Active layer thickness
Arktis
Arktis*
Climate change
Ice
inuit
permafrost
Thermokarst
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/edoc.23611
https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/23611

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