GlobPermafrost

A Service for Global Permafrost Monitoring

Develop, validate and implement information products to support the research communities and related international organisations like IPA and CliC in their work on understanding permafrost better by integration of Earth Observation data

Name	GlobPermafrost
Title	A Service for Global Permafrost Monitoring
Programme	DUE (Data User Element)
Theme	Land
Cost	1500 K
Type	Service Demonstration
Status	In progress
Sensors	SAR Optical Scatterometer
Web site	http://www.globpermafrost.info
Objectives	The goal of the GlobPermafrost project is to demonstrate EO integrated applications in the field of permafrost monitoring world-wide with active participation of user organisations, mainly from academics. The project acts as a platform to users and service providers in order to harmonise information needs and develop a set of key tools to address them. The GlobPermafrost project objectives are to: Define EO applications for permafrost monitoring based on user requirements Integrate the latest EO technology with state of the art ground based measurements and models Demonstrate and validate the products with the user organisations Develop mid to long term scenarios for boreal and mountainous permafrost monitoring Contribute to new scientific results in the domain of climate change, climate modelling and hydrological modelling The demonstration scenario consists of: Mapping circumpolar permafrost extend Permafrost dedicated land cover class prototype 10 local cold spots 5 regional transects for “hot spot” identification Mountain permafrost areas
Prime contractor	Zentralanstalf fur Meteorologie und Geodynamik
Subcontractors	University of Oslo GAMMA AWI H2O Geomatics
Users	US Geological Survey : Alaska Science Center, Anchorage Terrestrial Hydrology Group : Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Meteorology Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN : Hazard Prevention Division, Bern Permafrost Laboratory, Geophysical Institute : University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks Permafrost Carbon Network : SEARCH Project, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Norut Northern Research Institute : Tromso NASA ABoVE : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Ministry of Education and Science : Republic of Kazakhstan, Permafrost Department, Institute of Geography-Geoecology, Ulaanbaatar Institute of Earth's Cryosphere : Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch Institute of Arctic Biology : University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks Global Carbon Project of the IGBP : The Earth System Science Program, Faculty of Science Geophysical Institute : University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks Geographic Information Science : Department of Geography, University of Jena EU JPI COUP research consortium : Stockholm University Department of Physics and Mathematics : Alcala University, Alcala de Henares Department of Geosciences : Universite de Fribourg, Fribourg Department of Geographical and Historical Studies : University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Climate-Biogeosphere Interactions Group : Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Meteorology Centro de Estudos Geograficos : Instituto de Geografica e Ordenamento do Territorio (IGOT), Lisbon The Chinese University of Hong Kong :
Project Manager	Annett Bartsch Head of Climate Change Impacts Zentralanstalt fur Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG) Hohe Warte 38 1190 Vienna Austria Tel: +43 1 360 26 22 90 Fax: +43 1 369 1233 annett.bartsch(at)zamg.ac.at
Technical Officer	Frank Martin Seifert European Space Agency - ESRIN D/EOP-SEP Via Galileo Galilei I-00044 Frascati (RM) Tel.: +39 06-941.80560 Fax: +39 06-941.80552 frank.martin.seifert(at)esa.int