PANGAEA_940994 Landsat-based multitemporal glacier inventory data of over four decades (1977-2019) for Ladakh region Soheb, Mohd; Ramanathan, Alagappan; Bhardwaj, Anshuman; Coleman, Millie; Spagnolo, Matteo; Rea, Brice R; Singh, Shaktiman; Sam, Lydia Landsat-based multitemporal glacier inventory data of over four decades (1977-2019) for Ladakh region 2022-02-11 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.940994 Investigator Mohd Soheb sohaib.achaa@gmail.com Earth Science Binary Object Binary Object (Media Type) Binary Object (File Size) geoscientificInformation Glaciers Himalayas Inventory Ladakh Landsat Complete unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 3 data points text/tab-separated-values Soheb, Mohd; Ramanathan, Alagappan; Bhardwaj, Anshuman; Coleman, Millie; Rea, Brice R; Spagnolo, Matteo; Singh, Shaktiman; Sam, Lydia (2022): Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region. Earth System Science Data, 14(9), 4171-4185, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4171-2022

This dataset contains Landsat based multitemporal glacier inventories of the four Upper Indus sub-basins (Shayok, Suru, Leh and Zanskar) and three internal drainage basins (Tsokar, Tsomoriri and Pangong) around the Ladakh region for 1977, 1993, 2009 and 2019. The inventory includes all the glaciers (2257) of the region larger than 0.5 km2, covering an area of ~7923 ±106 km2 (equivalent to ~90% of the total glacierised area in the region). The glacier area ranges between 0.5 to 862 km2, most of which belong to the smallest size category (0.5-1 km2). More than 70% of the glaciers are north-facing (NW-N-NE) and concentrated in higher elevation zones between 5000 and 6000m a.s.l. The dataset is a product of a semi-automated approach involving a band ratio approach, manual corrections and quality check. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.940994"! ** It contains basin wise shapefiles of Ladakh glaciers > 0.5km² for 1977, 1993, 2009 and 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4171-2022 Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region DIF 9.4 2022-02-11 2025-08-04