The suitability of using ASTER GDEM2 for terrain-based extraction of stream channel networks in a lowland Arctic permafrost catchment

Seasonally inundated areas and water-saturated soils are common features of lowland Arctic and sub-Arctic permafrost environments. With the onset of snow melt, and water percolation down through the snowpack, a principal factor controlling stream channel flow, aside from active layer depth, is topog...

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Main Authors: Anna Maria Trofaier, W Gareth Rees
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geographical Society of Finland 2015-03-01
Series:Fennia: International Journal of Geography
Online Access:http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia/article/view/46290/14639