Inventory of glaciers for Southern Spitsbergen - 2010

Inventory of tidewater and landbased glaciers delineated from archival satellite images (ASTER, Landsat) for Southern Spitsbergen. Tidewater glaciers are delineated based on satellite data from 2010. Landbased glacier are extracted from different satellite data (2005-2010). Shapefiles have basic information in the attribute table (name, ID, area, type of glaciers). Detailed description of the source data and accuracy data for glaciers from hydrological basin of Hornsund can be found in: Błaszczyk M., Jania J.A., Kolondra L., 2013: Fluctuations of tidewater glaciers in Hornsund Fiord (Southern Svalbard) since the beginning of the 20th century. Polish Polar Research, 34( 4): 327-352.http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/114504/edition/99557/content

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Name of data centre PPDB
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    • Małgorzata Błaszczyk
    • malgorzata.blaszczyk@us.edu.pl
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Start date 2005-07-01
End date 2010-09-30
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Date of metadata edit 2025-07-11
Name of metadata editor Hubert Świech [wyszukaj w katalogu]
Email metadata editor hubert.swiech.stud@pw.edu.pl
Name of data centre contact Łukasz Malarzewski
Data centre contact email lukasz.malarzewski@us.edu.pl