Landsat- and Sentinel-derived glacial lake dataset in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor from 1990 to 2020

Lesi, Muchu; Nie, Yong; Shugar, Dan Hirsh; Wang, Jida; Deng, Qian; Chen, Huayong; Fan, Jianrong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5489-2022

Articles | Volume 14, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5489-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5489-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 12

Data description paper

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15 Dec 2022

Data description paper |

| 15 Dec 2022

Landsat- and Sentinel-derived glacial lake dataset in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor from 1990 to 2020

Muchu Lesi, Yong Nie, Dan Hirsh Shugar, Jida Wang, Qian Deng, Huayong Chen, and Jianrong Fan

Data sets

Landsat- and Sentinel-derived glacial lake dataset in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor from 1990 to 2020 Muchu Lesi, Yong Nie, Dan H. Shugar, Jida Wang, Qian Deng, Huayong Chen, and Jianrong Fan https://doi.org/10.12380/Glaci.msdc.000001

Short summary

The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor plays a vital role in foreign trade and faces threats from water shortage and water-related hazards. An up-to-date glacial lake dataset with critical parameters is basic for water resource and flood risk research, which is absent from the corridor. This study created a glacial lake dataset in 2020 from Landsat and Sentinel images from 1990–2000, using a threshold-based mapping method. Our dataset has the potential to be widely applied.