Recession and Morphological Changes of the Debris-Covered Milam Glacier in Gori Ganga Valley, Central Himalaya, India, Derived From Satellite Data

Recession and Morphological Changes of the Debris-Covered Milam Glacier in Gori Ganga Valley, Central Himalaya, India, Derived From Satellite Data

We analyzed the recession of the Milam glacier in the Gori Ganga valley, Uttarakhand Himalaya, using historical plane-table survey maps, topographical maps, Corona image (1968), Landsat 5 TM (1990), Landsat 7 ETM+ (2001), and Sentinel 2 (2017) satellite data. We estimate that the Milam glacier has r...

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Main Authors: Suraj Mal, Manish Mehta, R. B. Singh, Udo Schickhoff, M. P. S. Bisht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
Subjects:
Milam glacier
Gori Ganga
climate change
morphological changes
Himalaya
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00042/full

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