Italian Glaciers Inventory - Valle d'Aosta

The resource is part of the new Italian Glacier Inventory.

Glaciers of Valle d'Aosta region.

Citation proposal
. Italian Glaciers Inventory - Valle d'Aosta. https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/5adbe5a4-a089-4de0-9a2e-e941216e2d95

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Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose

The first step of this project focuses on detecting and mapping glacier outlines on high resolution orthophotos (taken in the period 2007-2011). These data will permit to develop a glacier database describing glacier area and main features (following the well-known guidelines of the World Glacier Monitoring Service summarized by Paul et al., 2010). The identification of the Italian glacier bodies and the evaluation of glacier area and main features are performed by analyzing aerial orthophotos acquired in the time frame 2006-2012 (pixel size 0.5 m x 0.5 m).

Moreover the data base will be improved and updated also analyzing regional data and by processing and analyzing high resolution satellite imagines acquired on the last 2 years.

Status: Completed

Originator

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra A. Desio, Università di Milano - Guglielmina Adele Diolaiuti (Assistant Professor of Physical Geography )

via Mangiagalli 34 Milano 20133 Italy

+39-02-50315510

+39-02-50315494

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Theme )

glaciers

Keywords ( Place )

alps

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italy

Keywords ( Place )

Valle d'Aosta

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: Intellectual property rights

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Spatial representation type: Vector

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

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