Remote Sensing of Landscape Change in Permafrost Regions

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 324-338

  Jorgenson, Mark Torre ^a   Grosse, Guido ^b  

^a Alaska Ecoscience   (United States)

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

Author keywords

change; ecosystem; landscape; permafrost; remote sensing; thermokarst

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; THERMOKARST;

EID: 84988805366     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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