Identifying permafrost slope disturbance using multi-temporal optical satellite images and change detection techniques

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2013, Pages 37-49

  Rudy, Ashley C A ^a   Lamoureux, Scott F ^a   Treitz, Paul ^a   Collingwood, Adam ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active layer detachments; Change detection; Object based image analysis; Permafrost; Remote sensing; Slope disturbance

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHANGE DETECTION; COST-EFFECTIVE METHODS; COST-INTENSIVE; DETECTION ACCURACY; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; DOWNSLOPE; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; FALSE POSITIVE; FIELD MAPPING; HAZARD ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IKONOS SATELLITE IMAGERY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; MORPHOLOGY AND SIZE; MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEMI-AUTOMATED DETECTION; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SLIDING DISTANCES; SLOPE DISTURBANCE; SLOPE FAILURE; STUDY AREAS; TEMPERATE REGIONS; VEGETATION INDEX DIFFERENCING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SLOPE STABILITY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACTIVE LAYER; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; DETECTION METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IKONOS; MORPHOMETRY; NDVI; PERMAFROST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE;

EID: 84873247679     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2012.12.008     Document Type: Article

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