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Chamoli Disaster Pre-event 2-m DEM Composite: September 2015, Version 1
Data set id:
HMA2_CPRE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4533678

Overview

This data set contains a 2-m resolution DEM composite and auxiliary parameters over the Chamoli disaster area in Uttarakhand, India, where on 7 February 2021 a glacier burst led to a massive flood. This is the pre-event DEM constructed from monoscopic Maxar/DigitalGlobe WorldView-1 and WorldView-2 images collected in September 2015. A post-event DEM is available as a separate data set (https://nsidc.org/data/HMA2_CPOST).
Parameter(s):
DIGITAL ELEVATION/TERRAIN MODEL (DEM)
Platform(s):
WORLDVIEW-1, WORLDVIEW-2
Sensor(s):
CAMERA
Data Format(s):
PNG, GeoTIFF
Temporal Coverage:
28 August 2015 to 5 October 2015
Temporal Resolution:
Not Specified
Spatial Resolution:
  • 2 m
  • 2 m
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84 / UTM zone 44N
EPSG:32644
Spatial Coverage:
N:
30.594
S:
30.293
E:
79.808
W:
79.482
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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