Utilization of Landsat Imagery to Assess the Impacts of Oil and Gas Extraction on the Tazovsky Peninsula, Siberia

• Main Author: Kline, Nicholas B
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Montana 2017
• Subjects: Landsat; Arctic; Fragmentation; Siberia; Google Earth Engine; Geographic Information Sciences; Remote Sensing; Tazovsky; Yamburg
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11074; https://scholarworks.umt.edu/context/etd/article/12117/viewcontent/Kline_Thesis_Final.pdf

Climatic warming of the Arctic is leading to landscape change through cascading biophysical feedbacks; development, such as oil and gas exploration and extraction, can accelerate or worsen these impacts. Due to restricted access to oil and natural gas fields, in situ environmental impact studies are...