G&S Project- Pakistan Glacier Inventory v.1.0

This new Pakistan glacier inventory has been extracted from optical data acquired by the European Space Agency Sentinel-2 twin satellites. This choice is dictated by the need to respond to the requirement to have homogeneous coverage of the entire territory under examination in terms of image acquisition dates, cloud cover and good spatial resolution, that allow the recognition of glaciers and their mapping. Furthermore, particular attention in the selection of the data processing and mapping methods was given for the expected prospect activity of updating the glacial perimeters and monitoring changes in the future.

The methodology was based on a semi-automatic classification (segmentation) and the mapping has been implemented in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment.

In this new inventory, 13,032 glaciers covering 13,546.93 km2 have been mapped.

The available inventory is the Version 1.0.

 
Citation proposal
(2024) . G&S Project- Pakistan Glacier Inventory v.1.0. https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/60565650-b68d-4db2-8873-53b94b4ed56b
 

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Identification

File identifier
60565650-b68d-4db2-8873-53b94b4ed56b   XML
Online resource
Protocol
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Protocol
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
Resource identifier
Metadata language
English
Spatial representation type
Vector
Encoding
Format
shape file
Version
1.0
Projection
code
WGS 1984
 

Classification of data and services

Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Classification of data and services

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Coupled resource
 
 

Keywords

Other keywords
Keywords ( Theme )
  • glaciers
Keywords ( Place )
  • Pakistan
Keywords ( Place )
  • Gilgit-Baltistan
Keywords ( Theme )
  • Glaciers inventory
Keywords ( Theme )
  • Sentinel-2
 
 

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Date ( Publication )
2024-04-12
 

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This Pakistan Glacier Inventory has been extracted from ESA Sentinel2 data acquired on 2022. The workflow in the applied procedure is composed by three main steps:

 Satellite data acquisition and composite;

 Spectral Index extraction;

 Data classification and segmentation.

The time series of Sentinel-2 L1C data in the acquisition period from "2022-07-31" to "2022-10-01" was processed. The resulting image composite is a cloud free Sentinel-2 multiband dataset, time-centered at the end of August.

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Conformity
 

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Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
EvK2CNR
Email
adp@montagna.org
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
EvK2CNR
Email
adp@montagna.org
 

Metadata information

Contact for the metadata
Organisation name
EvK2CNR
Email
adp@montagna.org
Date stamp
2024-06-02T16:20:59
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
 
 

SDS

Conformance class 1: invocable

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Endpoint URL
Technical specification
 

Conformance class 2: interoperable

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Quality of Service
 
Access constraints
Limitation
 
Use constraints
Limitation
 
Responsible custodian
Contact for the resource
 
 

Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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