scholarly journals Remote Sensing of 2000–2016 Alpine Spring Snowline Elevation in Dall Sheep Mountain Ranges of Alaska and Western Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1157 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Verbyla ◽  
Troy Hegel ◽  
Anne Nolin ◽  
Madelon van de Kerk ◽  
Thomas Kurkowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Mountain Ranges

scholarly journals Remote Sensing Applications for Landslide Monitoring and Investigation in Western Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Renato Macciotta ◽  
Michael T. Hendry
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Slope Failure ◽  
Landslide Monitoring ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Remote Sensing Techniques ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
River Valleys

Transportation infrastructure in mountainous terrain and through river valleys is exposed to a variety of landslide phenomena. This is particularly the case for highway and railway corridors in Western Canada that connect towns and industries through prairie valleys and the Canadian cordillera. The fluidity of these corridors is important for the economy of the country and the safety of workers, and users of this infrastructure is paramount. Stabilization of all active slopes is financially challenging given the extensive area where landslides are a possibility, and monitoring and minimization of slope failure consequences becomes an attractive risk management strategy. In this regard, remote sensing techniques provide a means for enhancing the monitoring toolbox of the geotechnical engineer. This includes an improved identification of active landslides in large areas, robust complement to in-place instrumentation for enhanced landslide investigation, and an improved definition of landslide extents and deformation mechanisms. This paper builds upon the extensive literature on the application of remote sensing techniques and discusses practical insights gained from a suite of case studies from the authors’ experience in Western Canada. The review of the case studies presents a variety of landslide mechanisms and remote sensing technologies. The aim of the paper is to transfer some of the insights gained through these case studies to the reader.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing Monitoring of Advancing and Surging Glaciers in the Tien Shan, 1990–2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1973
Author(s):  
Sugang Zhou ◽  
Xiaojun Yao ◽  
Dahong Zhang ◽  
Yuan Zhang ◽  
Shiyin Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Landsat Tm ◽  
Tien Shan ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Remote Sensing Images ◽  
Climate Variable ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Remote Sensing Monitoring ◽  
Change Mechanism ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation

The advancing of glaciers is a manifestation of dynamic glacial instability. Glaciers in the Tien Shan region, especially in the Central Tien Shan, show instability, and advancing glaciers have been recently detected. In this study, we used Landsat TM/ETM+/OLI remote sensing images to identify glaciers in the Tien Shan region from 1990 to 2019 and found that 48 glaciers advanced. Among them, thirty-four glaciers exhibited terminal advances, and 14 glaciers experienced advances on the tributary or trunk. Ten of the glaciers experiencing terminal advances have been identified as surging glaciers. These 48 glaciers are distributed in the western part of the Halik and Kungey Mountain Ranges in the Central Tien Shan, and Fergana Mountains in the Western Tien Shan, indicating that the Tien Shan is also one of the regions where advancing and surging glaciers are active. From 1990 to 2019, a total of 169 times advances occurred on 34 terminal advancing glaciers in the Tien Shan region; the highest number of advancing and surging of glaciers occurred in July (26 and 14 times, respectively). With reference to the existing literature and the present study, the surge cycle in the Tien Shan is longer than that in other regions at high latitudes in Asia, lasting about 35–60 years. Surging glaciers in the Tien Shan region may be affected by a combination of thermal and hydrological control. An increase in temperature and precipitation drives surging glaciers, but the change mechanism is still difficult to explain based on changes in a single climate variable, such as temperature or precipitation.

Reconstruction of the dynamics and origin of rock glaciers in an Alpine environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Lehmann ◽  
Robert S. Anderson ◽  
Xavier Bodin ◽  
Pierre G. Valla ◽  
Julien Carcaillet
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Time Scales ◽  
Surface Velocity ◽  
Rock Glacier ◽  
Alpine Environment ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Rock Glaciers ◽  
Alpine Environments ◽  
Alpine Valleys

<p>Rock glaciers are one of the most frequent cryospheric landform in mid-latitude mountain ranges. They influence the evolution of alpine environments on short (years to decades) and long (centuries to millennia) time scales. As a visible expression of mountain permafrost [1] as well as an important water reserve in the form of ground ice [2], rock glaciers are seen as increasingly important in the evolution of geomorphology and hydrology of mountain systems in the context of climate change and deglaciation [3, 4]. On longer time scales, rock glaciers transport boulders produced by the erosion of the headwall upstream and downstream and therefore participate in shaping mountain slopes [5]. Despite their importance, the dynamics and origin of rock glaciers are poorly understood.</p><p>In this study, we propose to address two questions:</p><p>1) How does the dynamics of rock glaciers change over time?</p><p>2) What is the origin of rock glaciers and what is their influence on the evolution of alpine environments?</p><p>These two questions require an evaluation of the surface velocity field of rock glaciers by relating short and long time scales. To solve this problem, we combine complementary methods including remote sensing, geochronology with a mechanical model of rock glacier dynamics. We apply this approach to the rock glacier complex of the Vallon de la Route in the Massif du Combeynot (French alps).</p><p>In order to reconstruct the displacement field of the rock glacier on modern time scales, we used remote sensing methods (i.e., image correlation and InSAR). Over longer periods (10<sup>3</sup> to 10<sup>4</sup> years), we used cosmogenic terrestrial nuclides (TCN) dating. By applying this methodology to boulder surfaces at different positions along the central flow line of the rock glacier, from the headwall to its terminus, we will be able to convert the exposure ages into surface displacement. The use of dynamic modelling of rock glaciers [6] will allow us to relate the surface kinematics to short to long time scales. It will then be possible to discuss the age, origin of rock glaciers and how topo-climatic and geomorphological processes control their evolution in Alpine environment.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Barsch, D.: Rockglaciers. Indicators for the Present and Former Geoecology in High Mountain Environments, Springer series in physical environment vol. 16, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1996.</p><p>[2] Jones, D. B., Harrison, S., Anderson, K., and Whalley, W. B.: Rock glaciers and mountain hydrology: A review, Earth-Sci Rev, 193, 66–90, 2019.</p><p>[3] Haeberli, W., Schaub, Y., and Huggel, C.: Increasing risks related to landslides from degrading permafrost into new lakes in deglaciating mountain ranges, Geomorphology, 293, 405–417, 2017.</p><p>[4] Knight, J., Harrison, S., and Jones, D. B.: Rock glaciers and the geomorphological evolution of deglacierizing mountains, Geomorphology, 324, 14–24, 2019.</p><p>[5] MacGregor, K.R., Anderson, R.S., Waddington, E.D.: Numerical modeling of glacial erosion and headwall processes in alpine valleys. Geomorphology 103 (2):189–204, 2009.</p><p>[6] Anderson, R. S., Anderson, L. S., Armstrong, W. H., Rossi, M. W., & Crump, S. E.: Glaciation of alpine valleys: The glacier–debris-covered glacier–rock glacier continuum. Geomorphology, 311, 127-142, 2018.</p>

scholarly journals Discriminating Wet Snow and Firn for Alpine Glaciers Using Sentinel-1 Data: A Case Study at Rofental, Austria

Geosciences ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achim Heilig ◽  
Anna Wendleder ◽  
Andreas Schmitt ◽  
Christoph Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Optical Data ◽  
Optical Remote Sensing ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Snow Covered Area ◽  
Covered Area ◽  
Wet Snow ◽  
Sar Data ◽  
Sar Analysis

Continuous monitoring of glacier changes supports our understanding of climate related glacier behavior. Remote sensing data offer the unique opportunity to observe individual glaciers as well as entire mountain ranges. In this study, we used synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to monitor the recession of wet snow area extent per season for three different glacier areas of the Rofental, Austria. For four glaciological years (GYs, 2014/2015–2017/2018), Sentinel-1 (S1) SAR data were acquired and processed. For all four GYs, the seasonal snow retreated above the elevation range of perennial firn. The described processing routine is capable of discriminating wet snow from firn areas for all GYs with sufficient accuracy. For a short in situ transect of the snow—firn boundary, SAR derived wet snow extent agreed within an accuracy of three to four pixels or 30–40 m. For entire glaciers, we used optical remote sensing imagery and field data to assess reliability of derived wet snow covered area extent. Differences in determination of snow covered area between optical data and SAR analysis did not exceed 10% on average. Offsets of SAR data to results of annual field assessments are below 10% as well. The introduced workflow for S1 data will contribute to monitoring accumulation area extent for remote and hazardous glacier areas and thus improve the data basis for such locations.

Monitoring cryosphere and associated flood hazards in high mountain ranges of Pakistan using remote sensing technique

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 933-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arshad Ashraf ◽  
Rakhshan Roohi ◽  
Rozina Naz ◽  
Naveed Mustafa
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Flood Hazards ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Remote Sensing Technique

scholarly journals Remote Sensing of Glaciers in the Canadian Cordillera, Western Canada

2014 ◽  
pp. 333-352
Author(s):  
Roger D. Wheate ◽  
Etienne Berthier ◽  
Tobias Bolch ◽  
Brian P. Menounos ◽  
Joseph M. Shea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Canadian Cordillera ◽  
Western Canada

scholarly journals A Review of Free Optical Satellite Imagery for Watershed-Scale Landscape Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Bevington ◽  
Hunter Gleason ◽  
Xavier Giroux-Bougard ◽  
J. Tyler De Jong
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Reference Materials ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Remote Sensing Applications ◽  
Basic Concepts

Watershed-scale landscape analysis includes many disciplines, including ecological, hydrological, and geographical sciences. The recent proliferation of free optical satellite imagery (FOSI) has changed the possibilities for the monitoring of environmental change at local and global scales. Many reviews exist for discipline-specific remote sensing applications; however, this article seeks to highlight the rapidly growing archive of FOSI and applied tools that can be used by all levels of users. Herein, ten techniques and eight applications of FOSI are reviewed, along with the specifications and limitations of various sources of FOSI. Although this review focuses on Western Canada, the democratization of FOSI is globally relevant, and the objective is to explain basic concepts via figures and reference materials to help summarize this rapidly changing field.

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