Permafrost Monitoring with Brillouin Based Fiber Optic Distributed Strain and Temperature Sensing: Findings from a Controlled Thaw Experiment


Aleksei Titov1,2, Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos3, Anna M Wagner4, Arthur Gelvin5, Ian Ekblaw3, Craig Ulrich1, Barry M Freifeld3 and Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin6, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (5)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States