RDS
Regional Database System
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Clean-ice and Debris-covered Glaciers of Bhutan 2010

Clean-ice and Debris-covered Glaciers of Bhutan 2010

Published date: 2014-02-04

Description

Digital polygon data of Glaciers of Bhutan in 2010. This dataset is created using Landsat TM and ETM+, imageries of 2010. 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.

Access & Use Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Suggested Citation

ICIMOD. (2014). Clean-ice and Debris-covered Glaciers of Bhutan 2010 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.9358

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Thematic keywords
GlacierClean-iceDebris-covered
Geography
Bhutan
Contact
Name

Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan

Position

Research Associate RS/GIS

Organization

ICIMOD