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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 615, Issue -, Pages 1574-1583Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.153
Keywords
Ice-wedge polygons; Permafrost; Delineation; Mapping; Remote sensing; Geometry; Topology
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- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PTDC/CTA/SPA/099041/2008]
- New Generation of Polar Scientists Program
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The main objective of this paper is to verify the accuracy of delineating and characterizing ice-wedge polygonal networks with features exclusively extracted from remotely sensed images of very high resolution. This kind of mapping plays a key role for quantifying ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost. The evaluation of mapping a network is performed in this study with two sets of aerial images that are compared to ground reference data determined by fieldwork on the same network, located in Adventdalen, Svalbard (78 degrees N). One aerial dataset is obtained from a photogrammetric survey with RGB + NIR imagery of 20 cm/pixel, the other from an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) survey that acquired RGB images of 6 cm/pixel of spatial resolution. Besides evaluating the degree of matching between the delineations, the morphometric and topological features computed for the differently mapped versions of the network are also confronted, to have a more solid basis of comparison. The results obtained are similar enough to admit that remotely sensed images of very high resolution are an adequate support to provide extensive characterizations and classifications of this kind of patterned ground. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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