Detection of landscape dynamics in the Arctic Lena Delta with temporally dense Landsat time-series stacks

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 181, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-41

  Nitze, Ingmar ^a,b   Grosse, Guido ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic tundra; Coastal dynamics; Land cover disturbances; Permafrost thaw; River delta; Siberia; Thermoerosion; Thermokarst; Trend analysis; Vegetation change; Vegetation greening

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DYNAMICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; THAWING; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC TUNDRA; COASTAL DYNAMICS; LAND COVER; PERMAFROST THAWS; RIVER DELTAS; SIBERIA; THERMOEROSION; THERMOKARST; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION GREENING;

PERMAFROST;

AUTOMATION; DETECTION METHOD; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LANDSAT; METHODOLOGY; NDVI; PANGAEA; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER CHANNEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMOKARST; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARCTIC; LENA DELTA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84962800136     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.03.038     Document Type: Article

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