Thermokarst Development Detected from High-Definition Topographic Data in Central Yakutia

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Hitoshi Saito, Yoshihiro Iijima, Nikolay Basharin, Alexander Fedorov, Viktor Kunitsky
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: thermokarst; high-centered polygons; UAS; SfM-MVS photogrammetry; eastern Siberia; Churapcha; Ice; lena river; permafrost; Thermokarst; wedge*; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101579

Eastern Siberia is characterized by widespread permafrost thawing and subsequent thermokarst development. Estimation of the impacts of the predicted rise in precipitation and air temperatures under climate change requires quantitative knowledge about the spatial distribution of thermokarst developme...