Metadata Catalogue
Intersected area of M1 and M2, which are rock glaciers mapped by two different persons.
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.
Simple
- Date ( Publication )
- 2014-07-25
Point of contact
ICIMOD
-
Dr. Dorothea Stumm
(
Sr. Glaciologist and Permafrost Project Coordinator
)
Nepal
977-1-5275222
- 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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- ( Theme )
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- Rock Glacier
- Permafrost
- Cryosphere
- Glacier
- Keywords ( Place )
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- Hindu Kush Himalayan Region
- HKH
- Use limitation
- Copyright
- Use limitation
- Copyright
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Geoscientific information
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- OnLine resource
- The Cryosphere ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- The layer of intersection was created using the two layers M1 and M2 and Intersection (Analysis) tool in ArcGIS 10.2.
- File identifier
- da9ea301-2f4e-4872-acbc-08247fdd363a XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2020-09-08T14:41:58
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
