Schema	iso19139
Purpose	The glacier data provides the status and baseline information of glaciers to the researchers, scientists and policy makers in the field of glacier melt water resource management, impact of climate change study and to reduce glacial hazards.
Descriptive Keyword	Glacier Status, Climate change, Glacier (theme) Dihang, Brahmaputra, India, China, Lohit, Dibhang (place)

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level	dataset
Date	2020-09-08T14:41:02
Standard Name	North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003

Contact
Name	Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan	Email	Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice
Position name	Research Associate RS/GIS	Address
Role	author

Identification Info
Title	Status of Glaciers in Dihang Basin
Date	2011-12-04
Date Type	publication
Abstract	The comprehensive baseline information on the glaciers of the HKH region was generated semi-automatically using more than 200 Landsat 7 ETM+ images of 2005 ± 3 years with minimum cloud and snow coverage. The glacier outlines were derived by using object-based image classification method separately for clean-ice and debris-covered glaciers with some manual intervention. The attribute data were assigned to each glacier using 90m resolution SRTM DEM.
Purpose	The glacier data provides the status and baseline information of glaciers to the researchers, scientists and policy makers in the field of glacier melt water resource management, impact of climate change study and to reduce glacial hazards.
Status	completed
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	geoscientificInformation
Spatial Representation Type	vector
Equivalent Scale	50000

Cited Responsible Parties
Name	Mr. Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya	Email	Samjwal.Bajracharya@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5003222
Position name	Remote Sensing Specialist	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Dr. Guo Wanqin	Email	guowq@lzb.ac.an
Organization Name	State Key laboratory of Cryospheric Science, CAREERI	Voice
Position name	Research Assistant	Address
Role	author

Name	Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan	Email	Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5003222
Position name	Research Associate RS/GIS	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Ms. Finu Shrestha	Email	Finu.Shrestha@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5003222
Position name	Research Associate GIS	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	95.772	Geographic Extent West	97.764
Geographic Extent North	28.202	Geographic Extent South	29.537000000000003

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	asNeeded
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Legal Constraints
Use Limitation	Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2011). Status of Glaciers in Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.9359
Use Limitation	Free to use with copyright to ICIMOD. Citation: Bajracharya, SR; Shrestha, B (eds) (2011) The status of glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region. Kathmandu: ICIMOD, (http://lib.icimod.org/record/9419).
Access Constraints	copyright
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Reference System Information
Code	WGS 1984

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	feature

Distributor Info
Email	info@icimod.org	Organization Name	ICIMOD
Voice	977-1-5003222	Position name	Senior GIS Specialist
Address		Role	distributor

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