Status of Glaciers in Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region

Digital polygon data of Status of Glaciers in Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region during 2005 ± 3 (2002-2008) years. This dataset is created using Landsat ETM+ imageries of respective years. The glacier outlines was 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. The attribute data were assigned to each glacier using 90m resolution SRTM DEM. Source: ICIMOD and CAREERI (data for the Chinese part of the HKH region is a product of a national project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant no. 2006FY110200))

Date ( Publication ): 2011-12-04

Author

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

Nepal

Author

State Key laboratory of Cryospheric Science, CAREERI - Dr. Guo Wanqin ( Research Assistant )

Author

ICIMOD - Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan ( Research Associate RS/GIS )

Nepal

Author

ICIMOD - Ms. Finu Shrestha ( Research Associate GIS )

Nepal

Purpose: Locational baseline information and status of glaciers for water resource management, impact of climate change and glacial hazards studies.

Status: Completed

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

( Theme )

Glacier Status
Basin
Climate change

Keywords ( Place )

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

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

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 50000

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Distributor

ICIMOD -

977-1-5275223

OnLine resource: ArcGIS REST Services ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map )

OnLine resource: Status of Glaciers in the HKH Region ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: The accuracy of the Digital Data prepared depends on the base source Data and Maps. No assessment or ground truthing has been carried out on this data. ICIMOD accepts no responsibility for any inaccuracy, errors, or omissions in this data.

Description: ICIMOD & CAREERI (data for the Chinese part of the HKH region is a product of a national project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant no. 2006FY110200))