Thaw Settlement Monitoring and Active Layer Thickness Retrieval Using Time Series COSMO-SkyMed Imagery in Iqaluit Airport

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Deying Ma, Mahdi Motagh, Guoxiang Liu, Rui Zhang, Xiaowen Wang, Bo Zhang, Wei Xiang, Bing Yu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: permafrost; ALT; FCNInSAR; CSK images; thaw settlement coefficient; VWC; Science; Q; Nunavut; Canada; Iqaluit Airport; Active layer thickness; Ice; Iqaluit; wedge*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14092156; https://doaj.org/article/7a63a3d138f14ff193600b1beece9cdf

Thaw consolidation of degrading permafrost is a serious hazard to the safety and operation of infrastructure. Monitoring thermal changes in the active layer (AL), the proportion of the soil above permafrost that thaws and freezes periodically, is critical to understanding the conditions of the top l...