Turkish glacier inventory and classification from high-resolution satellite data

• Published in: Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews
• Main Authors: R. S. Azzoni, M. A. Sarikaya, D. Fugazza
• Other Authors: R.S. Azzoni, M.A. Sarikaya
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2020
• Subjects: Glacier inventory; Remote sensing; Turkey; Pleiades; Settore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica e Geomorfologia; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2434/745029; https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-020-00029-2

In view of the rapid and accelerating glacier retreat observed worldwide, the creation of an updated glacier inventory is fundamental to understand the glacier changes. Here we present the Turkish glacier inventory based on recent high-resolution satellite images (Pleiades, Google Earth™ and SPOT im...