C034
Remote Sensing of the Earth’s Northern Landscapes

Session ID#: 159862

Session Description:
Rapid and unprecedented changes are occurring across much of the arctic and subarctic as a result of air temperatures increasing at more than twice the average global rate. These changes include, but are not limited to, the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, thawing of permafrost,  rapid coastal erosion and retreat, changes in vegetation phenology and productivity, changes in surface hydrology and runoff, and increases in tundra wildfire frequency and intensity.  

We encourage submissions that advance our scientific understanding of the myriad physical processes associated with Earth's changing northern regions through the use of remotely-sensed observations, particularly those focusing on permafrost, hydrology, vegetation, snowpack, and the interactions between them. We welcome submissions from a range of sensor types (e.g. radar, lidar, optical, photogrammetry, hyperspectral) and platforms (e.g. airborne, spaceborne, cubesat, UAV). We further welcome submissions related to upcoming missions, such as SWOT and NISAR.

Co-Organized:
  • H - Hydrology
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
0718 Tundra [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
9315 Arctic region [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]

Primary Convener:  Roger J Michaelides, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States
Convener:  Sarah W Cooley, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jessica V Fayne, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Remote Sensing of ice wedge systems through varying spatial scales with a focus on NDVI (1046434)
Melissa Ward Jones1, Benjamin M Jones2, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy3, Alexandra Veremeeva4, Amy Lynn Breen5, Chandi Witharana6, Mahendra Udawalpola7, Amit Hasan6, Anna K Liljedahl8 and Emily Youcha9, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Pushchino, Russia, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States, (7)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, CT, United States, (8)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (9)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
 
Unpiloted Aerial System Remote Sensing Applications to Cold Region Weather Disasters (1049223)
Megan Verfaillie1, Eunsang Cho2, Lauren Dwyre3, Adam Hunsaker4, Imran Khan3, Cameron Wagner5 and Jennifer M Jacobs4, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NH, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Civil Engineering, Durham, NH, United States
 
Expanding beaver engineering exacerbates changes in the Arctic (Invited) (1064730)
Ken D Tape1, Jason Clark1 and Benjamin M Jones2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, United States
 
Mapping Surface Organic Soil Properties in Arctic Tundra using C-band SAR data (1064824)
Yonghong Yi1, Kazem Bakian Dogaheh2, Mahta Moghaddam2, Umakant Mishra3 and John Kimball4, (1)Tongji University, College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Shanghai, China, (2)University of Southern California, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, United States
 
Multiscale Mapping of Tundra Plant Traits using Hyperspectral data from UAS and AVIRIS-NG (1070222)
Wenqu Chen, University of Illinois, Geography, Urbana, United States, Ilana Fay Zeitzer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, Jennifer Fraterrigo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, NY, United States and Mark J Lara, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Departments of Geography and GIS and Plant Biology, Urbana, United States
 
DOCUMENTING MORE THAN A CENTURY OF BERING GLACIER PIEDMONT LOBE BEHAVIOR WITH MULTIPLE SOURCE, MULTIPLE SENSOR GEOSPATIAL IMAGERY AND DATA (1070536)
Bruce Franklin Molnia, U.S. Geological Survey, National Civil Applications Center, Reston, United States, Shawn Dilles, U.S. Department of the Interior Volunteer - Retired, Reston, United States and Kim Angeli, U.S. Geological Survey - Retired, Reston, United States
 
How might Canadian Shield surface water drainage pattern change in a wetter climate? (1074248)
Nimisha Wagle, Brown University, Department of Earth Environment and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Laurence C Smith, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States and Jessica V. Fayne, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States
 
Towards a Deep-Learning based Inventory of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps across the Arctic (Invited) (1113349)
Ingmar Nitze1, Konrad Heidler2, Sophia Barth3, Guido Grosse1 and Philipp Bernhard4, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (4)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
3D Reconstruction of High-Latitude Landscapes from Historic Aerial Film Imagery (1122666)
Emma C Menio1, Henry J Theiss2 and Jackson Cothren1,2, (1)University of Arkansas, Geosciences, Fayetteville, United States, (2)University of Arkansas, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, Fayetteville, United States
 
Detecting Complex Functional Lake-to-Channel Connectivity in the Mackenzie Delta (1127667)
Wayana Dolan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States and Xiao Yang, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, United States
 
Ice-wedge Degradation Stage Mapping Using Spectral and Geometric Properties (1129758)
Katherine Braun, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Christian G Andresen, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, United States
 
High Temporal Resolution Time-Series of Calibrated Radar Backscatter and Interferometric Phase and Coherence of Snowpack at Davos-Laret During Winter 2019-2020 Using the WBSCAT Microwave Scatterometer (1132833)
Charles L Werner1, Andreas Wiesmann1, Rafael Caduff1, Mike Schwank1 and Martin Suess2, (1)Gamma Remote Sensing, Guemligen, Switzerland, (2)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands
 
Big Imagery in Action: The First Pan-Arctic Ice-wedge Polygon Map (1153504)
Chandi Witharana1, Rajitha Udawalpola1,2, Amit Hasan1, Anna K Liljedahl3, Kenton McHenry4, Matthew B. Jones5, Luigi Marini6, Todd Nicholson6 and Robyn Thiessen-Bock7, (1)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States, (2)University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka, (3)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, DataONE, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, United States, (7)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Recent progress within the framework of ESA CCI+ Permafrost (1154595)
Annett Bartsch, B.Geos, Vienna, Austria and ESA DUE GlobPermafrost & CCI+ Permafrost teams
 
Stordalen Mire Spectral Signature Library for Spectral Unmixing Using Sherwin Williams ColorSnap® Tool (1161929)
Bianca Cilento1, AiLi Pigott2, Sophia A Burke3, Jessica Szetela4, Christina Herrick5, Franklin Sullivan5, Maria Florencia Fahnestock6, Ruth K Varner7, Max Murphy8, Karuna Bhat9, Scott R Saleska10 and Michael W Palace11, (1)Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)Colorado College, Colorado Springs, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Earth Sciences and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (8)Stockton University, Durham, NH, UNITED STATES, (9)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (10)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (11)University of New Hampshire, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States
 
Geospatial Analysis of Stordalen Mire Plant Composition From 2021-2022 (1162921)
AiLi Pigott1, Bianca Cilento2, Sophia A Burke3, Jessica Szetela4, Ruth K Varner5, Maria Florencia Fahnestock6, Scott R Saleska7, Franklin Sullivan8, Christina Herrick8, Karuna Bhat9, Max Murphy10 and Michael W Palace11, (1)Colorado College, Colorado Springs, United States, (2)Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Earth Sciences and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (9)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (10)Stockton University, Durham, NH, UNITED STATES, (11)University of New Hampshire, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States
 
Monitoring changes in seasonal lake inundation regimes in the Mackenzie River Delta using Sentinel-1 SAR time series (1164497)
Ben DeVries1, Mayah Obadia2, Aaron A Berg1 and Philip Marsh3, (1)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (3)Wilfrid Laurier University, Cold Regions Research Centre, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
Arctic Lake Volume Variability Quantified Using Satellite Altimetry and Optical Remote Sensing (1177894)
Eric Levenson1, Sarah W Cooley1, Andrew Mullen2 and Ian Van Dusen1, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, United States, (2)Woodwell Climate, Woods Hole, United States
 
Characterization of Arctic Vegetation Architecture in 3D Using UAS LIDAR (1184309)
Christian G Andresen, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, United States and Jacob A May, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, WI, United States
 
Mapping Arctic Shrub Structural Complexity Using UAS LiDAR and Deep Learning (1184797)
Jacob A May, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, WI, United States and Christian G Andresen, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, United States
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