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Landsliding is among the most massive and active exogenous processes. Now they increasingly manifest in permafrost zones due to climate change and require close attention and careful study. Analysis of the territory most prone to these processes, one of the largest islands in Northern Canada, Banks, confirmed earlier studies of landslide processes in this zone, which indicate a relationship between increased activation of landslides and abnormally warm summers. The study and assessment of the landslide focus param...

Peat fires in drained bogs are now becoming more active and large-scale, which poses a great threat to humans and the environment. The projects for secondary watering of drained zones are difficult and require improved methods for their implementation. Space monitoring is the most effective technique to assess the preliminary results and develop recommendations to further projects for the entire area of the bog. Analysis of remote sensing data since 1970 of the southwestern part of drained Orshinsky moss bog in Tv...

The research is aimed to demonstrate the possibility to find the quantitative characteristics of the processes developing in the landscapes of the thermokarst plains with fluvial erosion, using a momentary set of landscape metrics without long repeated observations. We examine a mathematical model of the morphological pattern of the thermokarst plains with fluvial erosion in the case of the asynchronous start developed in the framework of the mathematical morphology of landscapes. We have obtained empirical data o...

The permafrost zone (cryolithozone) is undergoing now an intensive anthropogenic influence. The strongest influence of the linear structure could be heating of the upper part of the ground layer, thawing of ice inclusions, weakening of the soil and surface subsidence. The strongest risk for constructing engineering structures within the southern part of the cryolithozone results from peatlands because of peat soil with high ice content. The aim of this work is revealing main interpretation criteria of peatlands co...