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The study area was located on the Pechora River delta. Both sites were composed of sandy ground and the permafrost depth at the different sites ranged from 20 cm to 8\u20139 m. The combination of optimum offset and multifold GPR methods showed promising results in these investigations of sandy permafrost geological profiles. According to direct and indirect observations after the abnormally warm conditions in 2016, the thickness and water content of the active layer in 2017 almost returned to the values in 2015 in the Kashin area. In contrast, the lowering of the permafrost table continued at Kumzha, and lenses of thin frozen rocks that were observed in the thawed layer in August of 2015 and 2017 were absent in 2016. According to recent geocryological and geophysical observations, increasing permafrost degradation might be occurring in the Pechora River delta due to the instability of the thermal state of the permafrost.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13163271","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,18]],"date-time":"2021-08-18T22:51:00Z","timestamp":1629327060000},"page":"3271","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Using Ground Penetrating Radar for Permafrost Monitoring from 2015\u20132017 at CALM Sites in the Pechora River Delta"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8680-125X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria","family":"Sudakova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS, 625000 Tyumen, Russia"},{"name":"Geology Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia"}]},{"given":"Marat","family":"Sadurtdinov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS, 625000 Tyumen, Russia"}]},{"given":"Andrei","family":"Skvortsov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS, 625000 Tyumen, Russia"}]},{"given":"Andrei","family":"Tsarev","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS, 625000 Tyumen, Russia"}]},{"given":"Galina","family":"Malkova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS, 625000 Tyumen, Russia"}]},{"given":"Nadezda","family":"Molokitina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS, 625000 Tyumen, Russia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9515-2087","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vladimir","family":"Romanovsky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RAS, 625000 Tyumen, Russia"},{"name":"Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7","DOI":"10.1002\/ppp.582","article-title":"Patterns of Permafrost Formation and Degradation in Relation to Climate and Ecosystems","volume":"18","author":"Shur","year":"2007","journal-title":"Permafr. 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