Digital polygon data of Glaciers of Nepal in 1980. This dataset is created using Landsat MSS, imageries of 1980. 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.
| Schema | iso19139 |
| Purpose | Glacier inventory for changes of glaciers in Nepal during different period. |
| Descriptive Keyword | Glacier, Clean Ice, Debris Cover, Himala, Cryosphere, servircat, icimod-servir, geo-climate (theme) Nepal (place) |
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| Language | eng |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Hierarchy Level | dataset |
| Date | 2025-07-17T11:11:34 |
| 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, SERVIR Himalaya | Voice | |
| Position name | Research Associate RS/GIS | Address | |
| Role | author | ||
| Identification Info | |
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| Title | Glaciers of Nepal 1980 |
| Date | 2014-05-06 |
| Date Type | publication |
| Abstract | Digital polygon data of Glaciers of Nepal in 1980. This dataset is created using Landsat MSS, imageries of 1980. 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. |
| Purpose | Glacier inventory for changes of glaciers in Nepal during different period. |
| 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 |
| Resource Maintenance Information | |
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| Maintenance and update frequency | notPlanned |
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| Legal Constraints | |
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| Use Limitation | Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2014). Glaciers of Nepal 1980 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/rds.9349 |
| Use Limitation | Users are permitted to copy, use, adapt, and redistribute SERVIR data without limitations. SERVIR encourages users to keep any adapted or redistributed versions of this data freely available for public use. |
| Use Limitation | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| Access Constraints | license |
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| Reference System Information | |
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| Code | WGS 1984 |
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| Hierarchy level | dataset |
| 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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