Remote Sensing and Local Knowledge of Hydrocarbon Exploitation:The Case of Bovanenkovo, Yamal Peninsula, West Siberia, Russia

• Main Authors: Kumpula, T., Forbes, B. C., Stammler, F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Nenets; reindeer migration; Quickbird-2; SPOT; Aster VNIR; Landsat; Arctic tundra; oil and gas activities; human impact; LAND-COVER CHANGE; EUROPEAN RUSSIA; OIL-SPILL; VEGETATION; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGERY; NORTH; DISTURBANCE; IMPACTS; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/2/22; name=Other engineering and technologies; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/3; name=Social anthropology; Arctic; Bovanenkovo; Bovanenkovo gas field; Yamal Peninsula; nenets; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/8a203450-54e9-40c0-99ae-fdfc65efe4ae; https://lacris.ulapland.fi/ws/files/6401157/Kumpula_et_al._2010_Remote_Sensing_and_Local_Knowledge_of_Hydrocarbon_Exploitation.pdf

The capacity of satellite imagery to detect anthropogenic impacts on land cover was assessed for the Bovanenkovo gas field on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia, which contains some of the world's largest untapped gas deposits. The region is also the homeland of nomadic Nenets reindeer he...