ILWIS GIS for Monitoring Landscapes in Tundra Ecosystems: Yamal Peninsula, Russia

• Main Authors: Lemenkova, Polina, Forbes, Bruce, Kumpula, Timo
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Sciences exactes et naturelles; Sciences de l'ingénieur; Disciplines auxiliaires de l'ingénieur; Disciplines graphiques; Géodésie appliquée topographie [télédétection]; Géodésie appliquée topographie [géodésie]; Sciences de la terre et du cosmos; Cartographie; Géographie physique; Géographie rurale; Géographie urbaine; Géographie humaine et aménagement du territoire; Aménagement du territoire; Systèmes d'information géographique; Télédétection; Méthodologie de la recherche scientifique; tundra; Arctic; environmental monitoring; mapping; satellite image; image processing; image analysis; geography; computer science; Géodésie; Yamal Peninsula; permafrost; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/364126; https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/364126/3/Lemenkova_etal_Abstract_Yamal2012.pdf

The paper focuses on the monitoring changes in Russian tundra landscapes and distribution of various land cover types in Yamal Peninsula, Russia, during the past two decades. Specific climate and environmental settings of the study area facilitate seasonal flooding, active erosion processing, permafrost distribution and local landslide formation. Technically, the research has been performed using ILWIS GIS applied for satellite images comparative analysis using GIS supervised classification methods. info:eu-repo/semantics/published