Remote Sensing of Landscape Change in Permafrost Regions

Coastal erosion and mass wasting along the Canadian Beaufort Sea based on annual airborne LiDAR elevation data

(2017) Jaroslav Obu et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Acceleration of thaw slump activity in glaciated landscapes of the Western Canadian Arctic

(2016) Rebecca A Segal et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Thermokarst rates intensify due to climate change and forest fragmentation in an Alaskan boreal forest lowland

(2016) Mark J. Lara et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatio-Temporal Variation in High-Centre Polygons and Ice-Wedge Melt Ponds, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, Northwest Territories

(2016) Audrey E. Steedman et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

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

(2016) Ingmar Nitze et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Projected changes in diverse ecosystems from climate warming and biophysical drivers in northwest Alaska

(2015) Mark Torre Jorgenson et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Ecological recovery in an Arctic delta following widespread saline incursion

(2015) Trevor C. Lantz et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Permafrost collapse alters soil carbon stocks, respiration, CH4, and N2O in upland tundra

(2015) Benjamin W. Abbott et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How do climate and topography influence the greening of the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Québec? A dendrochronological analysis ofBetula glandulosa

(2015) Pascale Ropars et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

(2015) E. A. G. Schuur et al.   NATURE

Assessing Permafrost Degradation and Land Cover Changes (1986-2009) using Remote Sensing Data over Umiujaq, Sub-Arctic Québec

(2015) Inga Beck et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Landsat-based mapping of thermokarst lake dynamics on the Tuktoyaktuk Coastal Plain, Northwest Territories, Canada since 1985

(2015) Ian Olthof et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Distribution of near-surface permafrost in Alaska: Estimates of present and future conditions

(2015) Neal J. Pastick et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Landsat-based snow persistence map for northwest Alaska

(2015) Matthew J. Macander et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

InSAR analysis of surface deformation over permafrost to estimate active layer thickness based on one-dimensional heat transfer model of soils

(2015) Zhiwei Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Recent Arctic tundra fire initiates widespread thermokarst development

(2015) Benjamin M. Jones et al.   Scientific Reports

Deriving Snow Cover Metrics for Alaska from MODIS

(2015) Chuck Lindsay et al.   Remote Sensing

Role of ground ice dynamics and ecological feedbacks in recent ice wedge degradation and stabilization

(2015) M. T. Jorgenson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Changes in lake area in response to thermokarst processes and climate in Old Crow Flats, Yukon

(2015) T. C. Lantz et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Storm-Surge Flooding on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska

(2014) John Terenzi et al.   ARCTIC

Subarctic Thermokarst Ponds: Investigating Recent Landscape Evolution and Sediment Dynamics in Thawed Permafrost of Northern Québec (Canada)

(2014) Frédéric Bouchard et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Effects of thermo-erosion gullying on hydrologic flow networks, discharge and soil loss

(2014) Etienne Godin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

InSAR detects increase in surface subsidence caused by an Arctic tundra fire

(2014) Lin Liu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A shift of thermokarst lakes from carbon sources to sinks during the Holocene epoch

(2014) K. M. Walter Anthony et al.   NATURE

Quantifying Wedge-Ice Volumes in Yedoma and Thermokarst Basin Deposits

(2014) Mathias Ulrich et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Mapping the Activity and Evolution of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps by Tasselled Cap Trend Analysis of a Landsat Satellite Image Stack

(2014) Alexander Brooker et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

A decision-tree classification for low-lying complex land cover types within the zone of discontinuous permafrost

(2014) L. Chasmer et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Patterns of shrub expansion in Alaskan arctic river corridors suggest phase transition

(2014) Adam T. Naito et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Pan-Arctic Climate and Land Cover Trends Derived from Multi-Variate and Multi-Scale Analyses (1981–2012)

(2014) Marcel Urban et al.   Remote Sensing

Detecting Landscape Changes in High Latitude Environments Using Landsat Trend Analysis: 1. Visualization

(2014) Robert Fraser et al.   Remote Sensing

Impacts of snow cover on vegetation phenology in the arctic from satellite data

(2013) Heqing Zeng et al.   ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Patterns of Change within a Tundra Landscape: 22-year Landsat NDVI Trends in an Area of the Northern Foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska

(2013) Martha K. Raynolds et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

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

(2013) Marius Necsoiu et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Is Eurasian October snow cover extent increasing?

(2013) R D Brown et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation

(2013) Howard E Epstein et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Reorganization of vegetation, hydrology and soil carbon after permafrost degradation across heterogeneous boreal landscapes

(2013) M Torre Jorgenson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

(2013) Benjamin M Jones et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Quantification of upland thermokarst features with high resolution remote sensing

(2013) E F Belshe et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Assessment of spring floods and surface water extent over the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District

(2013) A M Trofaier et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The effects of fire on the thermal stability of permafrost in lowland and upland black spruce forests of interior Alaska in a changing climate

(2013) E E Jafarov et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Arctic climate warming and sea ice declines lead to increased storm surge activity

(2013) Jesse C. Vermaire et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Landscape influences on climate-related lake shrinkage at high latitudes

(2013) Jennifer K. Roach et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cumulative geoecological effects of 62 years of infrastructure and climate change in ice-rich permafrost landscapes, Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska

(2013) Martha K. Raynolds et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forests on thawing permafrost: fragmentation, edge effects, and net forest loss

(2013) Jennifer L. Baltzer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tall shrub and tree expansion in Siberian tundra ecotones since the 1960s

(2013) Gerald V. Frost et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mapping lakes for winter liquid water availability using SAR on the North Slope of Alaska

(2013) Jess Grunblatt et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Diagnosing Present and Future Permafrost from Climate Models

(2013) Andrew G. Slater et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Recent lake ice-out phenology within and among lake districts of Alaska, U.S.A

(2013) Christopher D. Arp et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Extending Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys for Regional Active Layer and Permafrost Mapping with Remote Sensing and Ancillary Data, Yukon Flats Ecoregion, Central Alaska

(2013) Neal J. Pastick et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Advances in Thermokarst Research

(2013) S. V. Kokelj et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Satellite-based modeling of permafrost temperatures in a tundra lowland landscape

(2013) Moritz Langer et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Surface deformation detected by ALOS PALSAR small baseline SAR interferometry over permafrost environment of Beiluhe section, Tibet Plateau, China

(2013) Fulong Chen et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Ecological Consequences of Sea-Ice Decline

(2013) E. Post et al.   SCIENCE

Interannual variations in the areas of thermokarst lakes in Central Yakutia

(2013) T. V. Tarasenko   Water Resources

Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change

(2013) Richard G. Pearson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Shrub canopies influence soil temperatures but not nutrient dynamics: An experimental test of tundra snow-shrub interactions

(2013) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Comparing Two Methods of Surface Change Detection on an Evolving Thermokarst Using High-Temporal-Frequency Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Selawik River, Alaska

(2013) Theodore Barnhart et al.   Remote Sensing

Recent Declines in Warming and Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra

(2013) Uma Bhatt et al.   Remote Sensing

Water Body Distributions Across Scales: A Remote Sensing Based Comparison of Three Arctic Tundra Wetlands

(2013) Sina Muster et al.   Remote Sensing

Thawing of massive ground ice in mega slumps drives increases in stream sediment and solute flux across a range of watershed scales

(2013) S. V. Kokelj et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Browning of the landscape of interior Alaska based on 1986-2009 Landsat sensor NDVI

(2012) Rebecca A. Baird et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

(2012) Ashley C.A. Rudy et al.   COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ground ice in the upper permafrost of the Beaufort Sea coast of Alaska

(2012) M. Kanevskiy et al.   COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Recent Shrub Proliferation in the Mackenzie Delta Uplands and Microclimatic Implications

(2012) Trevor C. Lantz et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Shrub expansion and climate feedbacks in Arctic tundra

(2012) Michael M Loranty et al.   Environmental Research Letters

High spatial resolution decade-time scale land cover change at multiple locations in the Beringian Arctic (1948–2000s)

(2012) D H Lin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The footprint of Alaskan tundra fires during the past half-century: implications for surface properties and radiative forcing

(2012) Adrian V Rocha et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Recent expansion of erect shrubs in the Low Arctic: evidence from Eastern Nunavik

(2012) Benoît Tremblay et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Near-Surface Permafrost Distribution Mapping Using Logistic Regression and Remote Sensing in Interior Alaska

(2012) S. K. Panda et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

Quantifying and relating land-surface and subsurface variability in permafrost environments using LiDAR and surface geophysical datasets

(2012) S. S. Hubbard et al.   HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL

Temporal and spatial pattern of thermokarst lake area changes at Yukon Flats, Alaska

(2012) Min Chen et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Thermokarst lake, hydrological flow and water balance indicators of permafrost change in Western Siberia

(2012) Johanna Mård Karlsson et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

A Permafrost Probability Model for the Southern Yukon and Northern British Columbia, Canada

(2012) Philip P. Bonnaventure et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Modern and Late Holocene Retrogressive Thaw Slump Activity on the Yukon Coastal Plain and Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

(2012) H. Lantuit et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Satellite Microwave remote sensing of contrasting surface water inundation changes within the Arctic–Boreal Region

(2012) Jennifer D. Watts et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A multi-sensor lidar, multi-spectral and multi-angular approach for mapping canopy height in boreal forest regions

(2012) David J. Selkowitz et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Evaluating global snow water equivalent products for testing land surface models

(2012) Steven Hancock et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Characterizing Post-Drainage Succession in Thermokarst Lake Basins on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska with TerraSAR-X Backscatter and Landsat-based NDVI Data

(2012) Prajna Regmi et al.   Remote Sensing

Capability of C-Band SAR for Operational Wetland Monitoring at High Latitudes

(2012) Julia Reschke et al.   Remote Sensing

Pan-Arctic Land Surface Temperature from MODIS and AATSR: Product Development and Intercomparison

(2012) Aiman Soliman et al.   Remote Sensing

Dynamics of a Coupled System: Multi-Resolution Remote Sensing in Assessing Social-Ecological Responses during 25 Years of Gas Field Development in Arctic Russia

(2012) Timo Kumpula et al.   Remote Sensing

Development of a circa 2000 land cover map of northern Canada at 30 m resolution from Landsat

(2011) Ian Olthof et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Potential shifts in dominant forest cover in interior Alaska driven by variations in fire severity

(2011) K. Barrett et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Areal changes of land ecosystems in the Alaskan Yukon River Basin from 1984 to 2008

(2011) Xiaoliang Lu et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences

(2011) Pieter S A Beck et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Permafrost response to increasing Arctic shrub abundance depends on the relative influence of shrubs on local soil cooling versus large-scale climate warming

(2011) David M Lawrence et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The response of Arctic vegetation to the summer climate: relation between shrub cover, NDVI, surface albedo and temperature

(2011) Daan Blok et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines

(2011) Hugues Lantuit et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Shrinking lakes of the Arctic: Spatial relationships and trajectory of change

(2011) M. L. Carroll et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost

(2011) Burke J. Minsley et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Processes and impacts of Arctic amplification: A research synthesis

(2011) Mark C. Serreze et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The impacts and implications of an intensifying fire regime on Alaskan boreal forest composition and albedo

(2011) PIETER S. A. BECK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Warming-induced destabilization of peat plateau/thermokarst lake complexes

(2011) A. B. K. Sannel et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Modern thermokarst lake dynamics in the continuous permafrost zone, northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska

(2011) B. M. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance

(2011) Guido Grosse et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A comparison of TerraSAR-X, RADARSAT-2 and ALOS-PALSAR interferometry for monitoring permafrost environments, case study from Herschel Island, Canada

(2011) Naomi Short et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Thematic accuracy of the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2001 land cover for Alaska

(2011) David J. Selkowitz et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Drained thaw lake basin recovery on the western Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska using high-resolution digital elevation models and remote sensing imagery

(2011) Jida Wang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Alaska’s changing fire regime — implications for the vulnerability of its boreal forestsThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming.

(2010) Eric S. Kasischke et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Linkages between large-scale climate patterns and the dynamics of Arctic caribou populations

(2010) Kyle Joly et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Permafrost-thaw-induced land-cover change in the Canadian subarctic: implications for water resources

(2010) W.L. Quinton et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Regional-scale boreal forest cover and change mapping using Landsat data composites for European Russia

(2010) Peter Potapov et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting the Arctic normalized difference vegetation index

(2009) D A Walker et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Climatic and geomorphic factors affecting contemporary (1950-2004) activity of retrogressive thaw slumps on the Aklavik Plateau, Richardson Mountains, NWT, Canada

(2009) Denis Lacelle et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Glacier change in western North America: influences on hydrology, geomorphic hazards and water quality

(2008) R. D. Moore et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES