Thaw slump inventory of Nordenskiöld Land (Svalbard Archipelago)

We present a comprehensive inventory of thaw slumps (landslides developed in the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas) in Nordenskiöld Land (Svalbard Archipelago). We used the most recent orthophotos (5 x 5 m pixel size) acquired in 2009-2011 from the Web Map Services (WMS) of the Norwegian Polar Institute....

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Main Authors: Nicu, Ionut Cristi, Rubensdotter, Lena, Lombardo, Luigi
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2022
Subjects:
Based on orthophotos
Climate change
Cryosphere
Nordenskiöld_Land
Spitzbergen
Svalbard
thaw slump
Arctic
Svalbard Archipelago
Nordenskiöld Land
Norwegian Polar Institute
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.945348
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.945348
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Summary:We present a comprehensive inventory of thaw slumps (landslides developed in the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas) in Nordenskiöld Land (Svalbard Archipelago). We used the most recent orthophotos (5 x 5 m pixel size) acquired in 2009-2011 from the Web Map Services (WMS) of the Norwegian Polar Institute. The thaw slumps were identified and digitised on-screen as polygons in the WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_33N coordinate reference system. We identified a number of 562 thaw slumps, that will be used along with the thermo-erosion gullies inventory to provide the first multi-hazard predictive model in the Arctic.

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