Mapping of debris-covered glaciers in parts of the Greater Himalaya Range, Ladakh, western Himalaya, using remote sensing and GIS

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ghosh, Swagata ^a   Pandey, Arvind C ^b   Nathawat, Mahendra S ^c  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF JHARKHAND   (India)

^c INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

debris cover; Geographic Information System; glacier mapping; Himalaya; principal components analysis; remote sensing; supervised classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DEBRIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ICE; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

ACCURACY OF CLASSIFICATIONS; DEBRIS COVERED GLACIERS; HIMALAYAS; MORPHOMETRIC PARAMETERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING AND GIS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905748553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.083579     Document Type: Article

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