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
- Identification
- Distribution
- Quality
- Spatial rep.
- Ref. system
- Content
- Portrayal
- Metadata
- Md. constraints
- Md. maintenance
- Schema info
Identification
Data identification
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-12
- Purpose
- scientific and didactic
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Theme
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- tidewater glaciers, inventory
- Place
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- Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
- Projects
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- SESS_2019
Legal constraints
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- CC BY 4.0
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 1999-07-09
- End date
- 2006-08-15
Distribution
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
- Tidewater glaciers of Svalbard ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- OnLine resource
- 1b.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- OnLine resource
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Extended human readable information about the dataset
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Extended human readable information about the dataset
Quality
Data quality
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Ref. system
- Reference system identifier
- UTM 33X
Metadata
Metadata
- File identifier
- fb01ad1f-41d8-47f6-b5a2-2c0833b9e772 XML
- 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