Inventory of glaciers for Southern Spitsbergen - 2010

Inventory of tidewater and landbased glaciers delineated from archival satellite images (ASTER, Landsat) for Southern Spitsbergen. Tidewater glaciers are delineated based on satellite data from 2010. Landbased glacier are extracted from different satellite data (2005-2010). Shapefiles have basic information in the attribute table (name, ID, area, type of glaciers).

Detailed description of the source data and accuracy data for glaciers from hydrological basin of Hornsund can be found in:

Błaszczyk M., Jania J.A., Kolondra L., 2013: Fluctuations of tidewater glaciers in Hornsund Fiord (Southern Svalbard) since the beginning of the 20th century. Polish Polar Research, 34( 4): 327-352.http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/114504/edition/99557/content

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Citation

Date (Publication)
2020-12
Edition
https://ppdb.us.edu.pl/demodem/editioin
Purpose
scientific and didactic
Status
Completed
Author
  University of Silesia in Katowice - Małgorzata Błaszczyk ( )
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Theme
  • glaciers, inventory
Place
  • Souther Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

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Other constraints
CC BY 4.0
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2005-07-01
End date
2010-09-30
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Inventory of glaciers for Southern Spitsbergen ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
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2b.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
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Extended human readable information about the dataset ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Extended human readable information about the dataset

 

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Dataset
 

Ref. system

Reference system identifier
UTM 33X
 

Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
a0f670ad-0c1e-4cd5-a66d-1366cdfc9428 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2020-12-09T11:47:22
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  University of Silesia - Małgorzata Błaszczyk ( )
 
 

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glaciers, inventory

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