The GAMDAM glacier inventory: a quality-controlled inventory of Asian glaciers

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Nuimura, T., Sakai, A., Taniguchi, K., Nagai, H., Lamsal, D., Tsutaki, S., Kozawa, A., Hoshina, Y., Takenaka, S., Omiya, S., Tsunematsu, K., Tshering, P., Fujita, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; New Glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-849-2015; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00016648; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00016603/tc-9-849-2015.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/9/849/2015/tc-9-849-2015.pdf

We present a new glacier inventory for high-mountain Asia named "Glacier Area Mapping for Discharge from the Asian Mountains" (GAMDAM). Glacier outlines were delineated manually using 356 Landsat ETM+ scenes in 226 path-row sets from the period 1999–2003, in conjunction with a digital elev...