Analyzing the Land-Use Change Impacts of Oil and Gas Exploration Related Infrastructure Changes on Arctic Communities
Remote sensing based mixture modeling to study land and permafrost disturbances
- Rapidly changing environmental conditions in the Arctic, driven by amplified global warming, are impacting communities and ecosystems, particularly due to added anthropogenic impacts from energy exploration and development.
- Analysis integrating remote sensing and socioeconomic data can quantify the land disturbances and help understand societal vulnerabilities of Arctic communities.
- Critical need to quantify impacts resulting from expanding drilling in the region.
- Changes to the Arctic ecosystem provide crucial links to the global climate and biogeochemical cycles.
