Quantifying landscape change in an arctic coastal lowland using repeat airborne LiDAR

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Jones, Benjamin M ^a   Stoker, Jason M ^a   Gibbs, Ann E ^b   Grosse, Guido ^c   Romanovsky, Vladimir E ^c   Douglas, Thomas A ^d   Kinsman, Nicole E M ^e   Richmond, Bruce M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^e Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; coasts; LiDAR; permafrost; thermokarst

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EROSION; FLOODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; SEA ICE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ARCTIC; COASTAL LOWLAND; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ICE-RICH PERMAFROST; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THERMOKARST;

PERMAFROST;

LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LIDAR; PERMAFROST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOKARST; WAVE ENERGY;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891904331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045025     Document Type: Article

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