Clean Ice and Debris covered glaciers of HKH Region

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. This data does not cover the China part.

Date ( Publication ): 2011-04-12

Author

ICIMOD - Mr. Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya ( Remote Sensing Specialist )

Nepal

977-1-5275222

Author

ICIMOD - Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan ( Remote Sensing Analyst - Cryosphere )

Nepal

977-1-5275222

Author

ICIMOD - Ms. Finu Shrestha ( Research Associate GIS )

Nepal

977-1-5275222

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

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Theme )

Glacier Status
Clean Ice
Debris Covered
Glacier

Keywords ( Place )

HKH
Amu Darya
Indus
Ganges
Brahmaputra
Irrawaddy
Nepal
Bhutan
China
India
Pakistan
Afghanistan

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).

Use limitation: Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2011). Clean Ice and Debris covered glaciers of HKH Region [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.31029

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: Copyright

Denominator: 50000

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Distributor

ICIMOD -

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