Earth’s Cryosphere, 2017, Vol. XXI, No. 1, p. 86-96
CHANGES TO TUNDRA LAND COVER IN FIRE-AFFECTED AREAS: LANDSAT-BASED
S.G. Kornienko
Oil and Gas Research Institute, RAS, 3, Gubkina str., Moscow, 119333, Russia; spaceakm2@ogri.ru
Typical trends in spectral indices and land surface temperature in fire-affected tundra areas within the Urengoy oil and gas condensate field have been studied using Landsat imagery for the period from 1987 to 2014. The recovery time for the land cover thermal regime estimated according to long-term changes of land surface temperatures is much longer than for surface albedo, emissivity, and spectral indices. Other types of landscape changes in extensively burned areas can be estimated only by interpreting comprehensively the dynamics of land cover parameters calculated from spaceborne data.
Albedo, satellite images, emissivity, fire, land cover, land surface temperature, tundra