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))
| Schema | iso19139 |
| Purpose | Locational baseline information and status of glaciers for water resource management, impact of climate change and glacial hazards studies. |
| Descriptive Keyword | Glacier Status, Basin, Climate change (theme) HKH, Amu Darya, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Nepal, Bhutan, China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan (place) |
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| Language | eng |
| Charset | utf8 |
| Hierarchy Level | dataset |
| Date | 2020-09-08T14:39:19 |
| 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 | Status of Glaciers in Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region |
| Date | 2011-12-04 |
| Date Type | publication |
| Abstract | 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)) |
| Purpose | Locational baseline information and status of glaciers for water resource management, impact of climate change and glacial hazards studies. |
| 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 | |
| Position name | Remote Sensing Specialist | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author | ||
| Name | Dr. Guo Wanqin | guowq@lzb.ac.an | |
| Organization Name | State Key laboratory of Cryospheric Science, CAREERI | Voice | |
| Position name | Research Assistant | Address | |
| Role | author |
| Name | Mr. Sudan Bikash Maharjan | Sudan.Maharjan@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | |
| Position name | Research Associate RS/GIS | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author |
| Name | Ms. Finu Shrestha | Finu.Shrestha@icimod.org | |
| Organization Name | ICIMOD | Voice | |
| Position name | Research Associate GIS | Address | Nepal |
| Role | author |
| Geographic Extent | |||
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| Geographic Extent East | 67.631 | Geographic Extent West | 98.492 |
| Geographic Extent North | 27.492 | Geographic Extent South | 38.346 |
| Resource Maintenance Information | |
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| Maintenance and update frequency | asNeeded |
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| Legal Constraints | |
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| 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 |
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| Reference System Information | |
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| Code | WGS 1984 |
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| Hierarchy level | dataset |
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| metadata@icimod.org | Organization Name | ICIMOD | |
| Voice | 977-1-5275223 | Position name | |
| Address | Role | distributor | |
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| Online Resource | ArcGIS REST Services |
| Online Resource | Status of Glaciers in the HKH Region |