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

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Ma, D., Motagh, M., Liu, G., Zhang, R., Wang, X., Zhang, B., Xiang, W., Yu, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Nunavut; Canada; Iqaluit Airport; Active layer thickness; Ice; Iqaluit; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5011968; https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5011968_1/component/file_5011991/5011968.pdf

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...