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Remote Sensing of the Scotty Creek Basin
Wilfrid Laurier University researchers created and tested a new method to map land cover types – such as forests, bogs and fens – in the headwaters of the Scotty Creek basin. -
Variations of Climate, Surface Energy Budget, and Minimum Snow/Ice Extent ove...
Remote sensing is used to derive the annual minimum snow and ice extent over the Canadian Arctic landmass from 2000-2016. -
Permafrost-related landforms and geotechnical data compilation, Yellowknife t...
This report presents results from the first regional-scale approach to map permafrost-related landforms in the Slave Geological Province. -
Massive Ice Control on Permafrost Coast Erosion and Sensitivity
A historical analysis of coastal erosion with the help of photo data. -
Ground temperatures and thermokarst in the North Slave Region
Ground temperatures were monitored to examine evidence of ground temperature warming and to assess the influence of various environmental factors on permafrost conditions. -
Changing hydrology in Baker Creek
Meteorological data used to determine trends and changes in autumn rainfall and winter air temperatures over a 37-year record, and streamflow was used to calculate the total... -
Warmer temperatures and changing snowpack structure: what this means for the ...
This research looked at how the yearly snowpack is changing, and how it may influence the well-being of the Bathurst caribou herd. -
Remote Sensing of Vegetation on the Bathurst Caribou Herd Range
To help understand the impact of changes to caribou habitat their decline, we analyzed satellite imagery to detect changes in vegetation in the Bathurst caribou herd range. -
NWT Thermokarst Mapping Collective
The NWT Thermokarst Mapping Collective project developed a methodology to generate NWT-wide thermokarst and permafrost feature inventory maps. -
Long-term ice-rich permafrost coast sensitivity to air temperatures and storm...
Using aerial imagery and ground survey data from Pullen Island, NWT, we observe increasing coastal erosion rates between 1947 to 2018. -
Arctic coastal erosion: UAV-SfM data collection strategies for planimetric an...
This study furthers the geomorphological understanding of RTS processes along Arctic coasts, and demonstrates advancements in measurement practices for UAV-SfM data. -
Minimum Snow/Ice Extent over the Northern Circumpolar Landmass in 2000-19: Ho...
A novel satellite image processing technique has been utilized to produce annual time series of the minimum snow/ice extent over the northern circumpolar landmass for 2000–2019. -
Climate Sensitivity of High Arctic Permafrost Terrain Demonstrated by Widespr...
This paper shows that climate-driven thaw of hilltop ice-wedge networks is rapidly transforming uplands across Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. -
Distributions of degraded and intact lithalsas, North Slave region, Northwest...
This report provides an inventory of current and old lithalsas in a representative study area between Behchoko and Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. -
Remote Permafrost Terrain Mapping, Grays Bay - Yellowknife Corridor, Northwes...
This poster presents permafrost terrain mapping of the Grays Bay - Yellowknife Corridor. -
Mechanisms, volumetric assessment, and prognosis for rapid coastal erosion of...
This study documents erosional processes, recession rates, volume losses, and sediment delivery of Tuktoyaktuk Island since 1947 and projected into the future. -
Permafrost thaw induces short-term increase in vegetation productivity in nor...
Active layer thickness data paired with Landsat data were used to quantify the impacts of changing permafrost conditions on vegetation productivity in the NWT. -
UAV-SfM and Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis for Measuring Multi-Tempor...
Two coastal sites near Tuktoyaktuk were investigated over a one week and one year time interval, using high-resolution imagery from drones to identify coastal erosion rates.