The Potential of UAV Imagery for the Detection of Rapid Permafrost Degradation: Assessing the Impacts on Critical Arctic Infrastructure

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Soraya Kaiser, Julia Boike, Guido Grosse, Moritz Langer
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: permafrost degradation; consumer-grade unoccupied aerial vehicle; North Slope Alaska; land surface displacement; point cloud alignment; structure from motion; M3C2; Arctic; Vertical Point; Ice; north slope; permafrost; wedge*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14236107

Ground subsidence and erosion processes caused by permafrost thaw pose a high risk to infrastructure in the Arctic. Climate warming is increasingly accelerating the thawing of permafrost, emphasizing the need for thorough monitoring to detect damages and hazards at an early stage. The use of unoccup...