Thaw Settlement Monitoring and Active Layer Thickness Retrieval Using Time Series COSMO-SkyMed Imagery in Iqaluit Airport

• Main Authors: Ma, Deying, Motagh, Mahdi, Liu, Guoxiang, Zhang, Rui, Wang, Xiaowen, Zhang, Bo, Xiang, Wei, Yu, Bing
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : MDPI 2022
• Subjects: ALT; CSK images; FCNInSAR; permafrost; SoilGrids; thaw settlement coefficient; VWC; ddc:620; Canada; Iqaluit Airport; Nunavut; Active layer thickness; Ice; Iqaluit; wedge*
• Online Access: https://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/15629; https://doi.org/10.15488/15508

Thaw consolidation of degrading permafrost is a serious hazard to the safety and operation of infrastructure. Monitoring thermal changes in the active layer (AL), the proportion of the soil above permafrost that thaws and freezes periodically, is critical to understanding the conditions of the top l...