Monitoring permafrost environments with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors

• Main Author: Wang, Lingxiao
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2018
• Subjects: Fakultät für Geowissenschaften; ddc:500; ddc:550; Arctic; Leitet; Nunavik; Signalen; Active layer thickness; Arktis; Arktis*; Climate change; Ice; inuit; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23611/1/Wang_Lingxiao.pdf; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-236118

Permafrost occupies approximately 24% of the exposed land area in the Northern Hemisphere. It is an important element of the cryosphere and has strong impacts on hydrology, biological processes, land surface energy budget, and infrastructure. For several decades, surface air temperatures in the high...