High Mountain Asia Annual 90m Glacier Surface Melt/Freeze Phenology from SAR Imagery, Version 1
Data set id:
HMA_GSM
DOI: 10.5067/05I6ZHZWHSVV
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Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This data set contains annual surface melt onset and freeze onset dates across all glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) retrieved from time series synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The data set was based on analysis of C-band Sentinel-1 A/B SAR time series, comprising 32,741 Sentinel-1 A/B SAR images. The duration of annual glacier surface melt was determined for 105,432 mapped glaciers (83,102 km2 glacierized area) during the calendar years 2017-2020.
Parameter(s):
SURFACE MELT
Platform(s):
Sentinel-1A
Sentinel-1B
Sensor(s):
C-SAR
Data Format(s):
GeoTIFF
Temporal Coverage:
- 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2020
Temporal Resolution:
- 1 year
Spatial Resolution:
- 90 m
- 90 m
Spatial Reference System(s):
- WGS 84EPSG:4326
Spatial Coverage:
- N:39.3278838S:15.9481506E:105.0568047W:60.8416366
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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