Characteristics of aufeis in the Kolyma River basin derived from Landsat images (2013-2017)

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Present-day aufeis dataset was created by Landsat-8 OLI images for the period 2013-2019. Each aufeis was delineated by satellite images as polygon. Cloud-free Landsat images are obtained immediately after snowmelt season (e.g. between May, 17 and June, 16), to detect the highest possible number of aufeis. Critical values of Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) were used for semi-automated aufeis detection. However, a detailed expert-based verification was performed after automated procedure, to distinguish snow-covered areas from aufeis and cross-reference historical and satellite-based data collections. According to Landsat data, the number of aufeis reaches 2216, with their total area about 879.7 km2. The difference between the Cadastre (1958) and the satellite-derived data may indicate significant changes of aufeis formation environments.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925405
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14174248
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925406
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925404
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.925405
Provenance
Creator Makarieva, Olga ORCID logo; Shikhov, Andrey ORCID logo; Ostashov, Andrey ORCID logo; Nesterova, Nataliia ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2020
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 8894 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (144.662W, 60.587S, 168.980E, 68.959N); Russia
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-05-17T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-06-16T00:00:00Z