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    This document discusses snow and glacier mapping. It outlines the team members working on the project and provides definitions of snow and glaciers. It describes different types of glaciers and snow cover. It lists the satellites used for monitoring glaciers. The document outlines various methods for snow and glacier mapping including false colour composites, manual delineation, segmentation of ratio images, and classification. It also discusses how glaciers and snow affect people and can be dangerous. Finally, it mentions factors contributing to snow and glacier melting like global warming.

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    This document discusses snow and glacier mapping. It outlines the team members working on the project and provides definitions of snow and glaciers. It describes different types of glaciers and snow cover. It lists the satellites used for monitoring glaciers. The document outlines various methods for snow and glacier mapping including false colour composites, manual delineation, segmentation of ratio images, and classification. It also discusses how glaciers and snow affect people and can be dangerous. Finally, it mentions factors contributing to snow and glacier melting like global warming.

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    This document discusses snow and glacier mapping. It outlines the team members working on the project and provides definitions of snow and glaciers. It describes different types of glaciers and snow cover. It lists the satellites used for monitoring glaciers. The document outlines various methods for snow and glacier mapping including false colour composites, manual delineation, segmentation of ratio images, and classification. It also discusses how glaciers and snow affect people and can be dangerous. Finally, it mentions factors contributing to snow and glacier melting like global warming.

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    SNOW AND GLACIER MAPPING

    TEAM

    Priyabrata Visista Reddy Aditya Shenoy Shibashish


    Mishra Padhy

    IMH/10025/17 IMH/10007/17 IMH/10004/17 IMH/10023/17


    INTRODUCTION
    Snow : Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in
    light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
    Glacier : are large masses of snow, recrystallized ice and rock debris that
    accumulate in great quantities and begin to flow outwards and
    downwards under the pressure of their own weight
    Snow cover : ground covered with snow showing some depth
     Ice Sheets  Piedmont Glaciers
     Ice Shelves  Cirque Glaciers

     Ice Caps  Hanging Glaciers


     Ice Streams  Tidewater Glaciers
     Ice fields

     Mountain Glaciers
     Valley Glaciers

    TYPES OF GLACIERS
    TYPES OF SNOW COVER
     New snow  Perennial snow

     Firn  Powder snow

     Névé

     Old snow

     Seasonal snow
    SATTELITES USED
    • The Terra(EOS AM-1) satellite operated by NASA,
    with the Moderate Resolution Imaging
    Spectroradiometer(MODIS) and ASTER sensors, is
    regularly used to monitor glaciers. It is affordable
    and it has good resolution(15m).
    • SPOT-5,ENVI SAT,MODIS,Quickbird and Geo-Eye
    can be used for measuring elevation change.
    METHODS FOR SNOW AND
    GLACIER MAPPING
    • FALSE COLOUR COMPOSITES
    • MANUAL DELINEATION
    • SEGMENTATION OF RATIO
    IMAGES
    • CLASSIFICATION
    • REFLECTION
    METHODS
    At the beginning of glacier studies with Landsat, (1) false colour composites (FCCs) from
    MSS digital data (later also TM) were used to delineate the accumulation and ablation area of
    a glacier or to classify different ice and snow facies. Afterwards and also recently glacier
    mapping with TM was carried out by (2) manual delineation of the glacier outline with a cursor
    on a FCC from MSS data and combination with a TM image. Further studies used (3)
    segmentation of ratio images with reflectance thresholds and (4) different supervised
    classification techniques. Another aspect (5) is the calculation of glacier reflection with TM
    and the comparison with ground measurements. Furthermore some studies about snow
    mapping with TM exists (e.g. DOZIER 1989). They can be used for calculation of the
    accumulation area ratio (AAR) of a glacier to estimate its mass balance. All methods and
    corresponding authors are summarized in the table below.
     Glaciers Provide Drinking Water

     Glaciers Irrigate Crops

     Glaciers Help Generate Hydroelectric Power

     Recreation
     Skiing and snowboarding
     Snowshoeing
     Snowmobiling

    DO GLACIERS AND SNOW AFFECT PEOPLE?


    ARE GLACIERS AND SNOW
    DANGEROUS?
    • Flooding Caused By • Snow Avalanches
    A Glacier • Ice Storm
    • Avalanches From
    • Blizzard
    Glaciers
    • Thunder Snow
    • The Threat Of
    Icebergs
    SNOW & GLACIER MELTING
    • Global warming(0.32° increase)
    • Greenhouse effect
    • Climatic change
    • Land use changes
    • Deforestation (increase in atmospheric methane )
     Snow and glacier melting and accumulation are important processes in
    regional water and energy cycles.
     Glaciers and snow cover respond to climate change notably over the
    Tibetan Plateau (TP) as the Earth's Third Pole where complex
    topography and lack of ground‐based observations result in knowledge
    gaps in hydrological processes and large uncertainties in model output.
     Satellite and ground‐based precipitation and land surface temperature
    are jointly used as model forcing.

    SNOW AND GLACIER MELT RUNOFF


    MODELLING
    MELTING OF GLACIERS IN CHINA HIMALAYA
    MELTING OF GLACIERS IN INDIAN HIMALAYAS
    GLACIER RETREAT IN BHUTAN HIMALAYAS

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