Digital polygon data of Glaciers of Nepal in 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010. This dataset is created using Landsat MSS,TM and ETM+ imageries of four respective decades. The glacier outlines were 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. Moreover, the glacier outlines for 2000, 1990 and 1980 were derived manually modifying the glacier outlines of 2010 by overlaying separately the images of respective decades.
| Schema | iso19139 |
| Purpose | To provided the information of the status and changes of glaciers area in Nepal from 1980's to 2010. |
| Descriptive Keyword | Glacier, Clean Ice, Debris Cover, Himala, Cryosphere (theme) Nepal (place) |
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| Language | eng |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Hierarchy Level | dataset |
| Date | 2020-09-08T14:32:55 |
| Standard Name | North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 |
| Contact | |||
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| Name | Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan | Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | |
| Position name | Research Associate RS/GIS | Address | |
| Role | author | ||
| Identification Info | |
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| Title | Glacier Area Change in Nepal 1980 - 2010 |
| Date | 2014-05-06 |
| Date Type | publication |
| Abstract | Digital polygon data of Glaciers of Nepal in 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010. This dataset is created using Landsat MSS,TM and ETM+ imageries of four respective decades. The glacier outlines were 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. Moreover, the glacier outlines for 2000, 1990 and 1980 were derived manually modifying the glacier outlines of 2010 by overlaying separately the images of respective decades. |
| Purpose | To provided the information of the status and changes of glaciers area in Nepal from 1980's to 2010. |
| Status | completed |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Topic Category | geoscientificInformation |
| Spatial Representation Type | vector |
| Equivalent Scale | 50000 |
| Cited Responsible Parties | |||
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| Name | Mr. Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya | metadata@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | 977-1-5275222 |
| Position name | Remote Sensing Specialist | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author | ||
| Name | Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan | Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | 977-1-5275222 |
| Position name | Research Associate RS/GIS | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author |
| Name | Ms. Finu Shrestha | Finu.Shrestha@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | 977-1-5275222 |
| Position name | Research Associate GIS | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author |
| Geographic Extent | |||
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| Geographic Extent East | 88.175 | Geographic Extent West | 80.794 |
| Geographic Extent North | 30.376000000000005 | Geographic Extent South | 27.528000000000002 |
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| Maintenance and update frequency | notPlanned |
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| Use Limitation | Free to use with copyright to ICIMOD (Citation: ICIMOD. (2014) Glacier Status in Nepal and Decadal Change From 1980 to 2010. Kathmandu, Nepal: ICIMOD) |
| Access Constraints | copyright |
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| Reference System Information | |
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| Code | WGS 1984 |
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| Hierarchy level | feature |
| Distributor Info | |||
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| metadata@icimod.org | Organization Name | ICIMOD | |
| Voice | 977-1-5275222 | Position name | Senior GIS Specialist |
| Address | Role | distributor | |
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