A new glacier inventory on southern Baffin Island, Canada, from ASTER data: I. Applied methods, challenges and solutions

• Main Authors: Svoboda, F, Paul, F
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2009
• Subjects: Institute of Geography; 910 Geography & travel; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; New Glacier; Annals of Glaciology; Baffin; glacier*
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/29221/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/29221/8/Paul_Svoboda_A_new_glacier_data_I_2009.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-29221; https://doi.org/10.3189/172756410790595912

The quantitative assessment of glacier changes as well as improved modeling of climatechange impacts on glaciers requires digital vector outlines of individual glacier entities. Unfortunately, such a glacier inventory is still lacking in many remote but extensively glacierized regions such as the Ca...