Coincident Above- and Below-Ground Autonomous Monitoring Strategy: Development and Use to Monitor Arctic Ecosystem Freeze-Thaw Dynamics

Coincident Above- and Below-Ground Autonomous Monitoring Strategy: Development and Use to Monitor Arctic Ecosystem Freeze-Thaw Dynamics

Soil moisture and thaw thickness strongly influence vegetation, and can serve as a proxy for vegetation greenness (and vice versa) during the growing season.
Figure 1. a) Correlation and normalized mean absolute error between bulk electrical conductivity (in top 20 cm soil) and green chromatic coordinate from July 1 (day 0) to August 11 (day 40) 2014 (using 72 locations along a 35 m long transect crossing various polygon types). b) Linear relationship b