1st Newsletter from the IPA Task Force on Remote Sensing of Permafrost

The International Permafrost Association Task Force on Remote Sensing of Permafrost has published its first newsletter that you can now read here:

http://ipa.arcticportal.org/images/documents/1st newsletter 2009-07-20.pdf

Content:

  • European Space Agency Permafrost Project funded
  • ASTER Global DEM released
  • Open Access remote sensing journal launched
  • Remote sensing activities in the Arctic Circumpolar Coastal Observatory Network
  • AGU Fall Meeting sessions on remote sensing of the cryosphere
  • Remote Sensing of Changes in Permafrost: Questionnaire

More information on the IPA Task Force can be found at:
http://www.permafrostwatch.org/news/ipa_taskforce_remotesensing.html

If you have any questions or suggestions please contact the Task Force Co-Chairs Guido Grosse (ggrosse@gi.alaska.edu) or Claude Duguay (crduguay@uwaterloo.ca).