da9ea301-2f4e-4872-acbc-08247fdd363a eng Mr. Prashant Baral ICIMOD Intern Prashant.Baral@icimod.org 2020-09-08T14:41:58 North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 WGS 1984 Intersected area of M1 and M2, which are rock glaciers mapped by two different persons. 2014-07-25 Mr. Marc-Olivier Schmid ICIMOD Research Analyst 977-1-5275222 Nepal Dr. Dorothea Stumm ICIMOD Sr. Glaciologist and Permafrost Project Coordinator 977-1-5275222 Nepal dorothea.stumm@icimod.org Mr. Prashant Baral ICIMOD Intern 977-1-5275222 Nepal baralbaje@yahoo.com Ms. Sonika Shahi ICIMOD Intern 977-1-5275222 Nepal sarangsonika@gmail.com Ms. Tanuja Shrestha ICIMOD Intern 977-1-5275222 Nepal tanuja.shrestha@gmail.com 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. 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. P0Y0M0DT0H0M0S Rock Glacier Permafrost Cryosphere Glacier Hindu Kush Himalayan Region HKH Copyright Copyright eng geoscientificInformation 60.853848000000006 105.04463000000001 15.957799999999999 39.31861000000001 2000-04-05T09:41:00 2013-12-17T09:42:00 ICIMOD 977-1-5275222 metadata@icimod.org http://www.the-cryosphere.net/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related The Cryosphere The layer of intersection was created using the two layers M1 and M2 and Intersection (Analysis) tool in ArcGIS 10.2.