Glacier area shrinkage in eastern Nepal Himalaya since 1992 using high-resolution inventories from aerial photographs and ALOS satellite images

To better understand the recent wide-scale changes in glacier coverage, we created and compared two glacier inventories covering eastern Nepal, based on aerial photographs (1992) and high-resolution Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) imagery (2006–10). The ALOS-derived inventory contained 1034...

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Main Authors: SUNAL OJHA, KOJI FUJITA, KATSUHIKO ASAHI, AKIKO SAKAI, DAMODAR LAMSAL, TAKAYUKI NUIMURA, HIROTO NAGAI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2016-06-01
Series:Journal of Glaciology
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143016000617/type/journal_article