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Glacier Area Change in Nepal 1980 - 2010

Digital polygon data of Glaciers of Nepal in 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010. This dataset is created using Landsat MSS,TM and ETM+ imageries of four respective decades. The glacier outlines were derived semi-automatically using object-based image classification (OBIC ) method separately for clean ice and debris cover and further editing and validation was done carefully by draping over the high resolution images from Google Earth. Moreover, the glacier outlines for 2000, 1990 and 1980 were derived manually modifying the glacier outlines of 2010 by overlaying separately the images of respective decades.

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Date ( Publication )
2014-05-06
Author
  ICIMOD - Mr. Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya ( Remote Sensing Specialist )
Nepal
977-1-5275222
Author
  ICIMOD - Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan ( Research Associate RS/GIS )
Nepal
977-1-5275222
Author
  ICIMOD - Ms. Finu Shrestha ( Research Associate GIS )
Nepal
977-1-5275222
Purpose
To provided the information of the status and changes of glaciers area in Nepal from 1980's to 2010.
Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
( Theme )
  • Glacier
  • Clean Ice
  • Debris Cover
  • Himala
  • Cryosphere
Keywords ( Place )
  • Nepal
Use limitation
Free to use with copyright to ICIMOD (Citation: ICIMOD. (2014) Glacier Status in Nepal and Decadal Change From 1980 to 2010. Kathmandu, Nepal: ICIMOD)
Access constraints
Copyright
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
50000
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distributor
  ICIMOD - Senior GIS Specialist
977-1-5275222
OnLine resource
Cryosphere Knowledge Hub ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
OnLine resource
Data Download ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )

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Feature
File identifier
a3e3c0d6-73b2-460a-9836-90e261469b68 XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-09-08T14:32:55
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Author
  ICIMOD - Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan ( Research Associate RS/GIS )
 
 

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Keywords

Clean Ice Cryosphere Debris Cover Glacier Himala

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