Using Google Earth Engine to Assess the Current State of Thermokarst Terrain on Arga Island (the Lena Delta)

Author:

Kartoziia Andrei1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract

The mapping of thermokarst landscapes and the assessment of their conditions are becoming increasingly important in light of a rising global temperature. Land cover maps provide a basis for quantifying changes in landscapes and identifying areas that are vulnerable to permafrost degradation. The study is devoted to assessing the current state of thermokarst terrain on Arga Island. We applied a random forests algorithm using the capabilities of the Google Earth Engine cloud platform for the supervised classification of the composite image. The analyzed composite consists of a Sentinel-2 image and a set of calculated indices. The study found that thermokarst-affected terrains occupy 35% of the total area, and stable terrains cover 29% at the time of image acquisition. The classifier has also mapped water bodies, slopes, and blowouts. The accuracy assessment revealed that the overall accuracy for all the different land cover classes was 98.34%. A set of other accuracy metrics also demonstrated a high level of performance. This study presents significant findings for assessing landscape changes in a region with unique environmental features. It also provides a potential basis for future interdisciplinary research and for predicting future thermokarst landscape changes in the Lena Delta area.

Funder

Russian Science Foundation

Publisher

MDPI AG

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