Multi-temporal image analysis of historical aerial photographs and recent satellite imagery reveals evolution of water body surface area and polygonal terrain morphology in Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Necsoiu, Marius ^a   Dinwiddie, Cynthia L ^a   Walter, Gary R ^a   Larsen, Amy ^b   Stothoff, Stuart A ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

active contouring; COSI Corr; ice wedge polygons; Kobuk Valley National Park; multi temporal image analysis; normalized difference index; permafrost degradation; thaw lakes; thermokarst

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MORPHOLOGY; THAWING;

ACTIVE-CONTOURING; COSI-CORR; ICE-WEDGE POLYGONS; MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL PARKS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE INDICES; PERMAFROST DEGRADATION; THERMOKARST;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; PERMAFROST; POLYGON; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; THERMOKARST; TRANSFORMATION; WETLAND;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880863633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/025007     Document Type: Article

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