Mapping Arctic Lake Ice Backscatter Anomalies Using Sentinel-1 Time Series on Google Earth Engine

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Georg Pointner, Annett Bartsch
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: arctic; lake ice; SAR; change detection; methane; Yamal; Science; Q; Arctic; Arctic Lake; The Sentinel; Yamal Peninsula; lena delta; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091626; https://doaj.org/article/ea6c84a397ef42e9b18b6e944ef00ff5

Seepage of geological methane through sediments of Arctic lakes might contribute conceivably to the atmospheric methane budget. However, the abundance and precise locations of such seeps are poorly quantified. For Lake Neyto, one of the largest lakes on the Yamal Peninsula in Northwestern Siberia, t...