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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: T. Nuimura, A. Sakai, K. Taniguchi, H. Nagai, D. Lamsal, S. Tsutaki, A. Kozawa, Y. Hoshina, S. Takenaka, S. Omiya, K. Tsunematsu, P. Tshering, K. Fujita
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2015
• Subjects: geo; envir; New Glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-849-2015; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/849/2015/tc-9-849-2015.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/fa85cfb8dc4b45388fea4f4b952f52ba

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...