• Home
  • About
  • Program
  • Logistics
  • Abstracts

Circumpolar Permafrost Monitoring with Satellite Data: The ESA DUE Permafrost Project

Circumpolar Permafrost Monitoring with Satellite Data: The ESA DUE Permafrost Project
Type: 
Parallel
Time: 
17 March 2010 - 10:00am
Annett Bartsch1
1Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 27-29, Vienna, Austria, ab [at] ipf [dot] tuwien [dot] ac [dot] at

The PERMAFROST project is funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) Data User Element (DUE) program, which is a component of the Earth Observation Envelope Program (EOEP). Permafrost is an Essential Climate Variable (ECV). The objective of this project is to establish a monitoring system on local to pan-boreal/arctic scale based on satellite data. Within this project permafrost relevant EO products are assessed and eventually provided to users. The complexity of the phenomenon Permafrost requires the close cooperation with the scientific community working in this field covering e.g. climatology, geomorphology, botany and hydrology. This range in involved subjects is reflected in the multitude of EO products which are assessed, e.g., land surface temperature, land cover, soil moisture, disturbances, snow and terrain parameters.

The Permafrost Information System of the DUE Permafrost will comprise tools for integration of products from other relevant ESA projects such as GlobSnow and GlobCover. It will allow the derivation of value added products which are relevant to Permafrost distribution and active layer dynamics by synergistic use of the different satellite datasets.

The project team is lead by TU Wien and supported by the Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research (Potsdam, Germany), Institute of Geography, University of Waterloo (Canada), Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany) and Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland).

Presentation PDF

application/pdf iconDownload PDF (1.66 MB)

Browse Session Abstracts

  • View abstracts for the talks in each of the plenary session
  • View abstracts for the talks in each of the parallel session
  • View abstracts for the poster presentations
  • Products
  • Attendees
  • Sponsors
  • Side Meetings
  • Video Archive
  • Press
  • ARCUS Logo
  • News
  • Organizing Committee
National Science Foundation | Division of Arctic Sciences
National Science Foundation
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere
International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere
Study of Environmental Arctic Change
Study of Environmental Arctic Change
Arctic System Science Program
Arctic System Science Program
US Arctic Research Commission
US Arctic Research Commission
North Slope Science Initiative
North Slope Science Initiative
International Arctic Science Committee
International Arctic Science Committee
Arctic Ocean Sciences Board
Arctic Ocean Sciences Board
Alaska Ocean Observing System
Alaska Ocean Observing System
Department of Energy
Department of Energy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
World Wildlife Fund
WWF
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Land Management
International Study of Arctic Change
International Study of Arctic Change
ArcticNet
ArcticNet
DAMOCLES
Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the ARCUS Cooperative Agreement ARC-0618885. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.