Mapping Land Cover Changes Using Landsat TM: A Case Study of Yamal Ecosystems, Arctic Russia

• Main Author: Lemenkova, Polina
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: figshare 2018
• Subjects: 40699 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Geography; 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography; FOS Biological sciences; Physical Geography; Arctic; Yamal Peninsula; Bovanenkovo; permafrost; Russian North; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7434242; https://figshare.com/articles/Mapping_Land_Cover_Changes_Using_Landsat_TM_A_Case_Study_of_Yamal_Ecosystems_Arctic_Russia/7434242

This paper details changes in land cover types and vegetation distribution in tundra landscapes during the past two decades. The main method of the work is classification of the Landsat TM scenes for land cover change detection. The new approach of the current work is application of GIS and remote s...