Land Cover Mapping in Northern High Latitude Permafrost Regions with Satellite Data: Achievements and Remaining Challenges

State of the Climate in 2015

(2016) Jessica Blunden et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Increased wetness confounds Landsat-derived NDVI trends in the central Alaska North Slope region, 1985–2011

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Circumpolar Arctic vegetation: a hierarchic review and roadmap toward an internationally consistent approach to survey, archive and classify tundra plot data

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Modelling and mapping permafrost at high spatial resolution using Landsat and Radarsat-2 images in Northern Ontario, Canada: Part 2 – regional mapping

(2016) Chunping Ou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Modelling and mapping permafrost at high spatial resolution using Landsat and Radarsat images in northern Ontario, Canada: part 1 – model calibration

(2016) Chunping Ou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on tundra hydrology

(2016) Anna K. Liljedahl et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Implementation of satellite based fractional water cover indices in the pan-Arctic region using AMSR-E and MODIS

(2016) Jinyang Du et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Earth's surface water change over the past 30 years

(2016) Gennadii Donchyts et al.   Nature Climate Change

Calibration and Validation of Landsat Tree Cover in the Taiga−Tundra Ecotone

(2016) Paul Montesano et al.   Remote Sensing

Land Cover Classification in SubArctic Regions Using Fully Polarimetric RADARSAT-2 Data

(2016) Yannick Duguay et al.   Remote Sensing

Mapping Arctic Plant Functional Type Distributions in the Barrow Environmental Observatory Using WorldView-2 and LiDAR Datasets

(2016) Zachary Langford et al.   Remote Sensing

Storage, Landscape Distribution, and Burial History of Soil Organic Matter in Contrasting Areas of Continuous Permafrost

(2015) J. Palmtag et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Land cover classification using high‐resolution aerial photography in adventdalen, svalbard

(2015) Carla Mora et al.   GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A-PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Estimating upper soil horizon carbon stocks in a permafrost watershed of Northeast Siberia by integrating field measurements with Landsat-5 TM and WorldView-2 satellite data

(2015) Dylan E. Broderick et al.   GIScience & Remote Sensing

Quantifying landscape-level methane fluxes in subarctic Finland using a multiscale approach

(2015) Iain. P. Hartley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A novel approach for the characterization of tundra wetland regions with C-band SAR satellite data

(2015) Barbara Widhalm et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Global land cover mapping at 30m resolution: A POK-based operational approach

(2015) Jun Chen et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

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

Potential of C and X Band SAR for Shrub Growth Monitoring in Sub-Arctic Environments

(2015) Yannick Duguay et al.   Remote Sensing

Comparing carbon storage of Siberian tundra and taiga permafrost ecosystems at very high spatial resolution

(2015) Matthias B. Siewert et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Technique for latitudinal discrimination of Siberian landscapes based on satellite passive microwave data

(2015) V. V. Melentyev et al.   Contemporary Problems of Ecology

Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems

(2014) Stan D. Wullschleger et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Characterizing Scattering Behaviour and Assessing Potential for Classification of Arctic Shore and Near-Shore Land Covers with Fine Quad-Pol RADARSAT-2 Data

(2014) Sarah N. Banks et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Regional and landscape-scale variability of Landsat-observed vegetation dynamics in northwest Siberian tundra

(2014) Gerald V Frost et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Land cover classification in multispectral imagery using clustering of sparse approximations over learned feature dictionaries

(2014) Daniela I. Moody et al.   Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Net regional methane sink in High Arctic soils of northeast Greenland

(2014) Christian Juncher Jørgensen et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2014) Marcel Urban et al.   Remote Sensing

Land Cover Characterization and Classification of Arctic Tundra Environments by Means of Polarized Synthetic Aperture X- and C-Band Radar (PolSAR) and Landsat 8 Multispectral Imagery — Richards Island, Canada

(2014) Tobias Ullmann et al.   Remote Sensing

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

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

Controls on water balance of shallow thermokarst lakes and their relations with catchment characteristics: a multi-year, landscape-scale assessment based on water isotope tracers and remote sensing in Old Crow Flats, Yukon (Canada)

(2013) Kevin W. Turner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Multi-temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar Metrics Applied to Map Open Water Bodies

(2013) Maurizio Santoro et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

The relationship between phytomass, NDVI and vegetation communities on Svalbard

(2013) Bernt Johansen et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

The fragmented nature of tundra landscape

(2013) Tarmo Virtanen et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

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

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

Spatial upscaling using thematic maps: An analysis of uncertainties in permafrost soil carbon estimates

(2012) Gustaf Hugelius   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Improving PolSAR Land Cover Classification With Radiometric Correction of the Coherency Matrix

(2012) Donald K. Atwood et al.   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

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

(2012) Julia Reschke et al.   Remote Sensing

Subpixel heterogeneity of ice-wedge polygonal tundra: a multi-scale analysis of land cover and evapotranspiration in the Lena River Delta, Siberia

(2012) S. Muster et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

Shrub Cover on the North Slope of Alaska: a circa 2000 Baseline Map

(2011) Pieter S. A. Beck et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Mapping vegetated wetlands of Alaska using L-band radar satellite imagery

(2011) Jane Whitcomb et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF 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

Detecting long-term changes to vegetation in northern Canada using the Landsat satellite image archive

(2011) R H Fraser et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Land use and land cover change in Arctic Russia: Ecological and social implications of industrial development

(2011) Timo Kumpula et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Image-based predictive ecosystem mapping in Canadian arctic parks

(2011) Robert Fraser et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

High-resolution mapping of ecosystem carbon storage and potential effects of permafrost thaw in periglacial terrain, European Russian Arctic

(2011) Gustaf Hugelius et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Vegetation mapping of Svalbard utilising Landsat TM/ETM+ data

(2011) Bernt E. Johansen et al.   POLAR RECORD

A method for trend-based change analysis in Arctic tundra using the 25-year Landsat archive

(2011) Robert Fraser et al.   POLAR RECORD

Comparison and assessment of coarse resolution land cover maps for Northern Eurasia

(2011) Dirk Pflugmacher 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

A comparison of multi-spectral, multi-angular, and multi-temporal remote sensing datasets for fractional shrub canopy mapping in Arctic Alaska

(2010) David J. Selkowitz   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Hierarchical mapping of Northern Eurasian land cover using MODIS data

(2010) Damien Sulla-Menashe et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Retrieval of growing stock volume in boreal forest using hyper-temporal series of Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter measurements

(2010) Maurizio Santoro et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Validation of the sigmoid wave curve fitting algorithm on a forest-tundra ecotone in the Northwest Territories, Canada

(2009) Koen Hufkens et al.   Ecological Informatics

Spectral characterization of periglacial surfaces and geomorphological units in the Arctic Lena Delta using field spectrometry and remote sensing

(2009) Mathias Ulrich et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

(2009) Mark A. Friedl et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A geomatics-based approach for the derivation of the spatial distribution of sediment transport processes in periglacial mountain environments

(2008) A. Bartsch et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Detection of permanent open water surfaces in central Siberia with ENVISAT ASAR wide swath data with special emphasis on the estimation of methane fluxes from tundra wetlands

(2008) Annett Bartsch et al.   HYDROLOGY RESEARCH

Global monitoring of wetlands – the value of ENVISAT ASAR Global mode

(2008) A. Bartsch et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Land cover classification of tundra environments in the Arctic Lena Delta based on Landsat 7 ETM+ data and its application for upscaling of methane emissions

(2008) Julia Schneider et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT