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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
137. Monitoring the Status of Siachen Glacier Using Multi Temporal Remote Sensing Approach
Authors : Snehmani, Mritunjay Kumar Singh, Krishnanjan Pakrasi, Anshuman Bhardwaj, A. Ganju
Published in: Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
The temporal monitoring of any glacier is important for observing the effects of changing climate. This study reports the decadal changes in Siachen glacier. Analysis was carried out on decadal basis by processing and analyzing Landsat images from 1978 to 2013. Images were co-registered within Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) limit of 0.5 pixel. An object based classification approach was adopted to perform temporal semi-automated areal change detection. The glacier inventory of 1978 showed around 74976 ha of glacier area which further decreased by around 1302 ha in 2013 with a shift of 1.5 km in the snout position.