Permafrost (IMAGE)
Caption
The left panel shows the near-surface permafrost extent (bluish area, overlaid on satellite imagery) estimated by the most commonly used pan-arctic map product for a site in Alaska. The right panel shows the estimate for the same site generated by a new artificial intelligence model developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory. In the right panel, the lack of blue overlay where the satellite imagery is clearly visible indicates there is no permafrost in those locations. This more accurate image was generated by a random-forest machine learning model.
Credit
Evan Thaler, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Usage Restrictions
No restrictions.
License
Public Domain