Schema	iso19139
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.
Descriptive Keyword	Glacier Status, Clean Ice, Debris Covered, Glacier (theme) HKH, Amu Darya, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Nepal, Bhutan, China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan (place)

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level	dataset
Date	2020-09-08T14:41:44
Standard Name	North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003

Contact
Name	Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan	Email	Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice
Position name	Remote Sensing Analyst - Cryosphere	Address
Role	author

Identification Info
Title	Clean Ice and Debris covered glaciers of HKH Region
Date	2011-04-12
Date Type	publication
Abstract	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.
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
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	geoscientificInformation
Spatial Representation Type
Equivalent Scale	50000

Cited Responsible Parties
Name	Mr. Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya	Email	metadata@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Remote Sensing Specialist	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan	Email	Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Remote Sensing Analyst - Cryosphere	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Name	Ms. Finu Shrestha	Email	Finu.Shrestha@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name	Research Associate GIS	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	67.625	Geographic Extent West	98.171
Geographic Extent North	27.497	Geographic Extent South	38.348

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	asNeeded
User Defined Maintenance Frequency
Date of Next Update

Legal Constraints
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

Reference System Information
Code	WGS 1984

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	dataset

Distributor Info
Email	metadata@icimod.org	Organization Name	ICIMOD
Voice		Position name
Address		Role	distributor

Transfer Option
Online Resource	Cryosphere Knowledge Hub