GPR profiles and ground ice contents of permafrost cores in Cape Bounty, Melville Island, 2015

The data was collected in order to link subsidence measurements from differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DinSAR) data to local ground ice characteristics, in a multi-scale approach. Boreholes were used as point measurements of permafrost ice content and cryostratigraphy, and GPR profiles were used to link the boreholes together and to extrapolate the measurements to a wider area. Subsidence could therefore be linked to ground ice content and to local permafrost history and evolution, providing insight into local conditions and landscape variability effects on thermokarst evolution.