Co-Chairs:
- Guido Grosse, U.S.A. ggrosse@gi.alaska.edu
- Claude Duguay, Canada crduguay@uwaterloo.ca
Statement of Goals:
- Promote the use of airborne and spaceborne sensors in detection and mapping of permafrost properties and periglacial processes in the light of ongoing climate change
- Strengthen technical expertise and use of remote sensing in other IPA working groups, i.e. on coastal dynamics, periglacial landforms and processes, and permafrost mapping
- Synthesize a peer-reviewed paper on current developments in remote sensing of permafrost environments
- Establish linkages to major space and funding agencies (NASA, ESA, CSA, JAXA, DLR) to promote importance of permafrost monitoring from space
Activities:
- Oral and Poster Sessions on Remote Sensing of Changes in Terrestrial Permafrost at AGU (2008)
- coordinate involvement of permafrost field researchers and modelers as individual user groups in the European Space Agency Project ‘Data User Element Permafrost’ starting in 2009
- participate at other international meetings with dedicated sessions on remote sensing of permafrost during 2009-2012
Data Liaison with SCDIC: Guido Grosse
Liaison with international organizations and programs: ESA Data User Element Permafrost