Remote sensing plays an important role to discriminate and delineate snow and ice cover in a glacial terrain which are used to estimate the snow melt run-off and also assist in environmental studies. The study area, Manasarovar Lake and the surrounding Himalayan region is the major source of water for Indus and Brahmaputra river system.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/automatic-extraction-information-glacial-terrain-using-remote-sensing
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/praveen-k-thakur
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/vel-murgan
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/aggarwal-s-p-et-al
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/hydrology-journal
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/glaciers
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/himalaya
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change