Publications

Contributions by b.geos team shown in bold.

2020 - 2022

Miner, K.R., Turetsky, M.R., Malina, E., Bartsch, A., Tamminen, J., McGuire A.D., Fix, A., Sweeney, C., Elder, C.D., Miller, C.E. Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic. Nat Rev Earth Environ 3, 55–67 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00230-3

A’Campo, W.; Bartsch, A.; Roth, A.; Wendleder, A.; Martin, V.S.; Durstewitz, L.; Lodi, R.; Wagner, J.; Hugelius, G. (2021) Arctic Tundra Land Cover Classification on the Beaufort Coast Using the Kennaugh Element Framework on Dual-Polarimetric TerraSAR-X Imagery. Remote Sensing, 13, 4780. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13234780

A. Bartsch, G. Pointner, I. Nitze, A. Efimova, D. Jakober, S. Ley, E. Högström, G. Grosse, P. Schweitzer (2021): Expanding infrastructure and growing anthropogenic impacts along Arctic coasts. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3176

M. C. Serreze, J. Gustafson, A. P. Barrett, M. L. Druckenmiller, S. Fox, J. Voveris, J. Stroeve, B. Sheffield, B. C Forbes, S. Rasmus, R. Laptander, M. Brook, M. Brubaker, J. Temte, M. R McCrystall and A. Bartsch (2021): Arctic rain on snow events: bridging observations to understand environmental and livelihood impacts. Environ. Res. Lett. 16: 105009, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac269b

Zhang, Z., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Jensen, K., McDonald, K., Hugelius, G., Gumbricht, T., Carroll, M., Prigent, C., Bartsch, A., and Poulter, B. (2021): Development of the global dataset of Wetland Area and Dynamics for Methane Modeling (WAD2M) , Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 2001–2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2001-2021

Pointner, G., Bartsch, A., Dvornikov, Y. A., and Kouraev, A. V. (2021): Mapping potential signs of gas emissions in ice of Lake Neyto, Yamal, Russia, using synthetic aperture radar and multispectral remote sensing data. The Cryosphere, 15, 1907–1929, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1907-2021

Pointner, G.; Bartsch, A. (2021): Mapping Arctic Lake Ice Backscatter Anomalies Using Sentinel-1 Time Series on Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing, 13, 1626. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091626

Swingedouw, D., Speranza, C., Bartsch, A., Durand, G., Jamet, C., Beaugrand, G., Conversi, A. (2020): Early Warning from Space for a Few Key Tipping Points in Physical, Biological, and Social-Ecological Systems. Surveys in Geophysics  41,  1237–1284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-020-09604-6

Lissak, C., Bartsch, A., De Michele, M., Gomez C., Maquaire O., Raucoules D. & T. Roulland (2020): Remote Sensing for Assessing Landslides and Associated Hazards. Surveys in Geophysics  41, 1391–1435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-020-09609-1

Bartsch A., Ley S. Nitze I., Pointner G., Vieira G. (2020): Feasibility Study for the Application of Synthetic Aperture Radar for Coastal Erosion Rate Quantification Across the Arctic. Frontiers in Environmental Science 8, 143 https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2020.00143 

Bartsch, A., Pointner, G., Ingeman-Nielsen, T., Lu, W. (2020): Towards Circumpolar Mapping of Arctic Settlements and Infrastructure Based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing, 12, 2368. , https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152368.

Popp, T., Hegglin, M., Hollmann, R., Ardhuin, F., Bartsch, A., Bastos, A., Bennett, V., Boutin, J., Brockmann, C., Buchwitz, M., Chuvieco, E., Ciais, P.,  Dorigo, W., Ghent, D., Jones, R., Lavergne, T., Merchant, C., Meyssignac, B., Paul, F., Quegan, S., Sathyendranath, S., Scanlon, T., Schröder, M., Simis, S., Willén, U. (2020) Consistency of satellite climate data records for Earth system monitoring. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0127.1.

Pointner, G., Bartsch, A. (2020): Interannual Variability of Lake Ice Backscatter Anomalies on Lake Neyto, Yamal, Russia. GI_Forum 2020, Volume 8, Issue 1, 47 - 62, 10.1553/giscience2020_01_s47

Bergstedt, H., Bartsch, A., Duguay, C., Jones, B. (2020). Influence of surface water on coarse resolution C-band backscatter: Implications for freeze/thaw retrieval from scatterometer data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111911.

Beamish, A., M. K. Raynolds, H. Epstein, G. V. Frost, M. J. Macander, H. Bergstedt, A. Bartsch, S. Kruse, V. Miles, C. Melih Tanis, B. Heim, M. Fuchs, S. Chabrillat, I. Shevtsova, M. Verdonen, J. Wagner (2020): Recent trends and remaining challenges for optical remote sensing of Arctic tundra vegetation: A review and outlook, Remote Sensing of Environment, 246, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111872.

Bergstedt, H., Bartsch, A., Neureiter, A., Hofler, A., Widhalm, B., Pepin, N., & Hjort, J. (2020). Deriving a frozen area fraction from Metop ASCAT backscatter based on Sentinel-1. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.2967364 

Bartsch A., B. Widhalm, M. Leibman, K. Ermokhina, T. Kumpula, A. Skarin, E.J. Wilcox, B.M. Jones, G. V. Frost, A. Höfler, G. Pointner (2020): Feasibility of tundra vegetation height retrieval from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 237, 111515 DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111515

2017-2019

Muster S., W.J. Riley, K. Roth, M. Langer, F. Cresto Aleina, C.D. Koven, S. Lange, A. Bartsch, G. Grosse, C.J. Wilson, B. Jones, B. Boike: Size distributions of Arctic waterbodies reveal consistent relations in their statistical moments in space and time. Front. Earth Sci., 2019. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2019.00005 

Widhalm, B.; Bartsch, A.; Goler, R.: Simplified Normalization of C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Data for Terrestrial Applications in High Latitude Environments. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 551. DOI: 10.3390/rs10040551

Stettner, S.; Lantuit, H.; Heim, B.; Eppler, J.; Roth, A.; Bartsch, A.; Rabus, B.: TerraSAR-X Time Series Fill a Gap in Spaceborne Snowmelt Monitoring of Small Arctic Catchments—A Case Study on Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island), Canada. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1155. DOI: 10.3390/rs10071155

Georg Pointner, Annett Bartsch, Bruce C. Forbes & Timo Kumpula (2018): The role of lake size and local phenomena for monitoring ground-fast lake ice, International Journal of Remote Sensing, DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1519281

Kroisleitner, C., Bartsch, A., and Bergstedt, H.: Circumpolar patterns of potential mean annual ground temperature based on surface state obtained from microwave satellite data, The Cryosphere, 12, 2349–2370, 2018. DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-2349-2018

Timea Katona & Annett Bartsch (2018): Estimation of wind speed over lakes in Central Europe using spaceborne C-band SAR, European Journal of Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2018.1516516

Högström, E., Heim, B., Bartsch, A., Bergstedt, H., & Pointner, G. (2018). Evaluation of a MetOp ASCAT-derived surface soil moisture product in tundra environments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123. DOI: 10.1029/2018JF004658

Dvornikov, Y.; Leibman, M.; Heim, B.; Bartsch, A.; Herzschuh, U.; Skorospekhova, T.; Fedorova, I.; Khomutov, A.; Widhalm, B.; Gubarkov, A.; Rößler, S. Terrestrial CDOM in Lakes of Yamal Peninsula: Connection to Lake and Lake Catchment Properties. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 167. DOI: 10.3390/rs10020167

Bergstedt, H.; Zwieback, S.; Bartsch, A.; Leibman, M.: Dependence of C-Band Backscatter on Ground Temperature, Air Temperature and Snow Depth in Arctic Permafrost Regions. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 142. DOI: 10.3390/rs10010142

Stettner, S.; Beamish, A.L.; Bartsch, A.; Heim, B.; Grosse, G.; Roth, A.; Lantuit, H. Monitoring Inter- and Intra-Seasonal Dynamics of Rapidly Degrading Ice-Rich Permafrost Riverbanks in the Lena Delta with TerraSAR-X Time Series. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 51. DOI: 10.3390/rs10010051

Bergstedt, H.; Bartsch, A. Surface State across Scales; Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Land Surface Freeze/Thaw Dynamics. Geosciences 2017, 7, 65. DOI: 10.3390/geosciences7030065