Siewert, Matthias Benjamin; Hugelius, Gustaf (2018): Land cover classification for Kytalyk / Chokurdakh, Indigirka Lowland , Sakha (Yakutia), Russia [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896769
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Abstract:
Permafrost‐affected ecosystems are important components in the global carbon (C) cycle that, despite being vulnerable to disturbances under climate change, remain poorly understood. This dataset provides high-resolution land cover data for the Kytalyk / Chokurdakh study area located at the Berelekh River in the Indigirka lowlands, eastern Siberia, Russia.
The land cover classification was constructed from very high spatial resolution (2 m) GeoEye-1 (DigitalGlobe, 19 August 2010) satellite imagery. It was used to map soil organic carbon (SOC) and vegetation biomass over an area dominated by a floodplain and thermokarst basins (Alas). We argue that vegetation dynamics and biomass accumulation are unlikely to offset mineralization of thawed permafrost C and that landscape‐scale reworking of SOC represents the largest potential changes to C cycling.
Related to:
Siewert, Matthias Benjamin; Hanisch, Sabine; Weiss, Niels; Maximov, Trofim C; Hugelius, Gustaf (2015): Comparing carbon storage of Siberian tundra and taiga permafrost ecosystems at very high spatial resolution. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120(10), 1973-1994, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JG002999
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Funding:
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), grant/award no. 282700: Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century
Coverage:
Latitude: 70.832000 * Longitude: 147.502000
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Comment:
The dataset projection is: EPSG:32655.
For more details on the generation of this dataset, please see Siewert et al. (2015)
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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