Schema	iso19139
Purpose	Rock glaciers are used as a proxy, because they are visual indicators of permafrost, often occurring near the lowermost regional occurrence of permafrost in mountains. They can be delineated based on high-resolution remote sensing imagery freely available on Google Earth. Mapping rock glaciers based on high resolution Google Earth images is a subjective approach. To reduce the influence of subjectivity during the mapping process, only areas identified as rock glaciers in both mappings is used for further analysis. This resulted in a much more conservative and firm database.
Descriptive Keyword	Rock Glacier, Permafrost, Cryosphere, Glacier (theme) Hindu Kush Himalayan Region, HKH (place)

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level
Date	2020-09-08T14:41:58
Standard Name	North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003

Contact
Name	Mr. Prashant Baral	Email	Prashant.Baral@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice
Position name	Intern	Address
Role	author

Identification Info
Title	Intersected area of M1 and M2, which are rock glaciers mapped by two different persons.
Date	2014-07-25
Date Type	publication
Abstract	The dataset shows areas identified as rock glaciers by two different persons (rock glacier mapping layer M1 and M2). It is obtained by intersecting M1 and M2 layer of rock glacier mapping.
Purpose	Rock glaciers are used as a proxy, because they are visual indicators of permafrost, often occurring near the lowermost regional occurrence of permafrost in mountains. They can be delineated based on high-resolution remote sensing imagery freely available on Google Earth. Mapping rock glaciers based on high resolution Google Earth images is a subjective approach. To reduce the influence of subjectivity during the mapping process, only areas identified as rock glaciers in both mappings is used for further analysis. This resulted in a much more conservative and firm database.
Status	completed
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	geoscientificInformation
Spatial Representation Type	vector

Cited Responsible Parties
Name	Mr. Marc-Olivier Schmid	Email
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Research Analyst	Address	Nepal
Role	originator

Name	Dr. Dorothea Stumm	Email	dorothea.stumm@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Sr. Glaciologist and Permafrost Project Coordinator	Address	Nepal
Role	pointOfContact

Name	Mr. Prashant Baral	Email	baralbaje@yahoo.com
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Intern	Address	Nepal
Role	originator

Name	Ms. Sonika Shahi	Email	sarangsonika@gmail.com
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Intern	Address	Nepal
Role	originator

Name	Ms. Tanuja Shrestha	Email	tanuja.shrestha@gmail.com
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Intern	Address	Nepal
Role	originator

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	105.04463000000001	Geographic Extent West	60.853848000000006
Geographic Extent North	39.31861000000001	Geographic Extent South	15.957799999999999

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	asNeeded
User Defined Maintenance Frequency	P0Y0M0DT0H0M0S
Date of Next Update

Legal Constraints
Use Limitation	Copyright
Access Constraints	copyright
Use Constraints	copyright

Reference System Information
Code	WGS 1984

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	dataset

Distributor Info
Email	metadata@icimod.org	Organization Name	ICIMOD
Voice	977-1-5275222	Position name
Address		Role	distributor

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