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Quaternary deposits map of Yana-Indigirka and Kolyma lowlands tundra zone, R-55-57, based on Landsat imagery
The Quaternary geology map was created for the Yana-Indigirka (eastern part) and Kolyma lowlands, tundra and partly forest-tundra zones. The map corresponds to the nomenclature...
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Database of Ice-Rich Yedoma Permafrost (IRYP)
We synthesized data on the circum-Arctic and sub-Arctic distribution and thickness of Yedoma for compiling a preliminary circum-polar Yedoma map. For compiling this map, we used...
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Developing and Testing a Deep Learning Approach for Mapping Retrogressive Thaw Slumps (CA, RU)
In a warming Arctic, permafrost-related disturbances, such as retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS), are becoming more abundant and dynamic, with serious implications for permafrost...
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Circumpolar Thermokarst Landscapes, 2015, Circum-Arctic
This data set provides the distribution of thermokarst landscapes in the boreal and tundra ecoregions within the northern circumpolar permafrost zones. This dataset provides an...
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Distribution of pingos from an IfSAR digital surface model, 2002-2006, western Arctic Coastal Plain, Northern Alaska (US)
A detailed attributed point feature shapefile of 1247 pingo locations was manually assembled from a 5m resolution digital surface model (DSM) derived from an airborne...
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Distribution of pingos from topographic maps, permafrost region, Siberia (RU)
A detailed attributed point feature shapefile of 6059 pingo locations in a 3.5 × 10⁶ km² region of northern Asia was manually assembled from 1:200 000 scale Russian...
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Database of Ice-Rich Yedoma Permafrost Version 2 (IRYP v2)
Ice-rich permafrost in the circum-Arctic and sub-Arctic, such as late Pleistocene Yedoma, are especially prone to degradation due to climate change or human activity. When...
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Mapped yedoma ice wedge polygon patterns from WorldView-1, 2008, Northern Seward Peninsula, Chukchi Sea coast, Alaska (US)
Detailed calculations of ground-ice volumes in permafrost deposits are necessary to understand and quantify the response of permafrost landscapes to thermal disturbance and...
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Mapped yedoma ice wedge polygon patterns from GeoEye-1, 2010, Cape Mamontov Klyk, Laptev Sea coast, Siberia (RU)
Detailed calculations of ground-ice volumes in permafrost deposits are necessary to understand and quantify the response of permafrost landscapes to thermal disturbance and...
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Mapped yedoma ice wedge polygon patterns from GeoEye-1, 2009, Buor Khaya, Laptev Sea coast, Siberia (RU)
Detailed calculations of ground-ice volumes in permafrost deposits are necessary to understand and quantify the response of permafrost landscapes to thermal disturbance and...
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Mapped thermokarst ice wedge polygon patterns from WorldView-1, 2009, Ebe-Basyn-Sise Island, SW Lena Delta, Siberia (RU)
Detailed calculations of ground-ice volumes in permafrost deposits are necessary to understand and quantify the response of permafrost landscapes to thermal disturbance and...
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Mapped thermokarst ice wedge polygon patterns from WorldView-1, 2008, Northern Seward Peninsula, Chukchi Sea coast,...
Detailed calculations of ground-ice volumes in permafrost deposits are necessary to understand and quantify the response of permafrost landscapes to thermal disturbance and...
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Mapped thermokarst ice wedge polygon patterns from GeoEye-1, 2010, Cape Mamontov Klyk, Laptev Sea coast, Siberia (RU)
Detailed calculations of ground-ice volumes in permafrost deposits are necessary to understand and quantify the response of permafrost landscapes to thermal disturbance and...
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Database of Quaternary Deposits from Maps, East and Central Siberia (RU)
This digital database is the product of collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Foothill College...
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Geochemical, lithological, and geochronological characteristics of sediment samples from Yedoma and thermokarst...
This dataset merges data from the yedoma domain in Northern Siberia (RU) and Alaska (US). It includes numerous fieldwork campaigns, which take place since 1998 . In total 224...
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Annual dynamics of rapid permafrost disturbances from Landsat and Sentinel-2, 2000-2019, Northeast Siberia (RU)
Permafrost is warming globally which leads to widespread permafrost thaw. Particularly ice-rich permafrost is vulnerable to rapid thaw and erosion, impacting whole landscapes...
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Coastal Retrogressive Thaw Slumps from GeoEye-1, WorldView-2 and Aerial Photographs, 2011, Yukon Coast (CA)
Coastal retrogressive thaw slumps (RTSs) were manually digitized at a 1:2000 scale using ArcMap (ESRI, version 10.3) from high‐resolution satellite images acquired in July (13...
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Remote sensing-based permafrost region disturbances: retrogressive thaw slumps, 1999-2014, Alaska (US)
The data quantify the abundance and distribution of the permafrost region disturbance (PRD) of retrogressive thaw slumps, using trend analyses of 30-m-resolution Landsat imagery...
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Remote sensing-based permafrost region disturbances: retrogressive thaw slumps, 1999-2014, Eastern Siberia (RU)
The data quantify the abundance and distribution of the permafrost region disturbance (PRD) of retrogressive thaw slumps, using trend analyses of 30-m-resolution Landsat imagery...
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Remote sensing-based permafrost region disturbances: retrogressive thaw slumps, 1999-2014, Western Siberia (RU)
The data quantify the abundance and distribution of the permafrost region disturbance (PRD) of retrogressive thaw slumps, using trend analyses of 30-m-resolution Landsat imagery...