Inventory of tidewater glaciers of Svalbard

Inventory of tidewater glaciers delineated from archival satellite images (Aster, Landsat) acquired in the period 1999-2006. Shapefiles have basic information in the attribute table (name, ID, area, length, front type of tidewater glaciers). When a tidewater glacier has a compound basin, only that part of it feeding the calving front was taken into consideration and presented here as the tidewater glacier. This implies that tributary glaciers clearly separated from the main basin by moraines are not included in the database. Similarly, marginal sections of tidewater glaciers that terminate on land are not included in the Inventory.

Detailed description of the source data and accuracy can be found in: Błaszczyk M., Jania J., Hagen J.O. 2009: Tidewater glaciers of Svalbard: Recent changes and estimates of calving fluxes. Polish Polar Research, 30(2): 85-142. http://www.polish.polar.pan.pl/ppr30/PPR30-085.pdf

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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
  • tidewater glaciers, inventory
Place
  • Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
Projects
  • SESS_2019

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License
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CC BY 4.0
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
1999-07-09
End date
2006-08-15
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Tidewater glaciers of Svalbard ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
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1b.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
 

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UTM 33X
 

Metadata

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Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2021-02-22T10:51:56
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  University of Silesia - Małgorzata Błaszczyk ( )
 
 

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Tidewater glaciers of Svalbard

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Keywords

tidewater glaciers, inventory
Projects
SESS_2019

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