ILWIS GIS for Monitoring Landscapes in Tundra Ecosystems: Yamal Peninsula, Russia

Polina Lemenkova (1) , Bruce C. Forbes , Timo Kumpula

1 OUC - Ocean University of China

The paper focuses on the monitoring changes in Russian tundra landscapes and distribution of various land cover types in Yamal Peninsula, Russia, during the past two decades. Specific climate and environmental settings of the study area facilitate seasonal flooding, active erosion processing, permafrost distribution and local landslide formation. Technically, the research has been performed using ILWIS GIS applied for satellite images comparative analysis using GIS supervised classification methods.

Mots clés: Tundra; Environement; Image analyis; Image classification; landscape; Land cover and land use; Land cover change; Land cover detection; Land cover and land use changes; Mapping; GIS; GIS & Spatial Analyses

Domaines: Géographie; Traitement des images [eess.IV]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Biodiversité; Biodiversité et Ecologie; Ecosystèmes; Ecologie, Environnement; Etudes de l'environnement; Géomorphologie

Polina Lemenkova, Bruce C. Forbes, Timo Kumpula. ILWIS GIS for Monitoring Landscapes in Tundra Ecosystems: Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Remote Sensing and Global Surveillance, Association of Geophysicists and Environmentalists of Serbia (AGES), May 2012, Belgrade, Serbia. ⟨10.6084/m9.figshare.7434236.v1⟩. ⟨hal-01964395⟩