Aerial images of eroding permafrost coastline, Qikiqtaruk - Hershel Island, Yukon, Canada

• Main Authors: Cunliffe, Andrew M, Tanski, George, Radosavljevic, Boris, Palmer, William, Sachs, Torsten, Kerby, Jeffrey T, Myers-Smith, Isla H
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Aerial Images; coastal change; erosion; File content; File format; File name; File size; Herschel Island; Yukon Territory; Canada; MULT; Multiple investigations; Permafrost; Qikiqtaruk; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Beaufort Sea; Herschel; permafrost; The Cryosphere; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.901852; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.901852

Permafrost landscapes are changing around the Arctic in response to climate warming, with coastal erosion being one of the most prominent and hazardous features. Using drone platforms, satellite images, and historic aerial photographs, we observed the rapid retreat of a permafrost coastline on Qikiq...