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Glacier Volume Changes and Their Climatic Causes in Tirungkhad Basin Located in Western Himalaya
Abstract: Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE In the Himalaya, a significant number of glaciers are shrinking due to climatic variations. Monitoring of these glaciers is important to assess future availability of water resources. However, Himalayan glaciers are normally difficult to monitor due to the rugged, mountainous terrain. Therefore, in the present study, Survey of India (SOI) topographical maps (1966) and Landsat datasets as ETM+ (2000, 2006) and TM …
Published in Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2013 · pp. 35–46 Read article