Characterizing post-drainage succession in thermokarst lake basins on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska with terraSAR-X backscatter and landsat-based NDVI data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3741-3765

  Regmi, Prajna ^a   Grosse, Guido ^a   Jones, Miriam C ^b,c   Jones, Benjamin M ^b   Anthony, Katey Walter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c University of Alaska   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic peatland succession; Drained thermokarst lake basin; Land surface age determination; Permafrost; Thermokarst lake; X band SAR

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLING; FROST HEAVE; GROUND ICE; GROWING SEASON; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE-RICH PERMAFROST; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT-5; LOGARITHMIC RELATIONSHIP; NDVI DATA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PEATLAND; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SAR DATA; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SUCCESSION DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DYNAMICS; TERRASAR-X; THEMATIC MAPPER IMAGES; THERMOKARST LAKES; X-BAND SAR; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

BACKSCATTERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE; LAKES; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

CATCHMENTS;

EID: 84872344250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4123741     Document Type: Article

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