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ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2023, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 130-139

Application of a terrestrial scanning laser in the study of annual and interannual variability of thermokarst in Central Yakutia

V.M. Lytkin 1, 2 , N.I. Basharin 1, 2 , A.F. Zhirkov 1 , A.R. Kirillin 1 , M.A. Sivtsev 1, 2 
1 Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia
2 The Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia
Accepted: 18.09.2023
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2023-20-5-130-139
The ongoing changes in climatic parameters influence the temperature regime of near-surface permafrost, leading to the development of hazardous surficial processes such as enhanced thermokarst activity in ice-rich permafrost terrain. Changes in the landscape can have adverse impacts on local communities in the Arctic. Understanding thermokarst development patterns is therefore critical. This article presents the results of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) for investigating the annual and interannual dynamics of thermokarst at a key study site near the village of Chapchylgan, Amga District, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The data derived from the point clouds with 1.2 cm/pixel resolution indicate that the surface of the study area covered by bylars (incipient thermokarst forms) has been settling at an average rate of 6.7 cm per year. Subsidence rates can be as high as 20 cm per year where the surface is covered by meltwater in spring. The TLS data were verified by a leveling survey at 19 points which showed an absolute error of 32 % for the annual observation cycle. In addition to surface subsidence, TLS can be used to obtain data on volume of thawed ground ice, depth of inter-bylar depressions and a digital terrain model in 1 cm resolution.
Keywords: thermokarst, terrestrial laser scanning, permafrost, permafrost degradation, ice complex, remote sensing
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