Boundary and Topographic data of the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau (2000)- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

This dataset includes boundary and topographic data of Southeastern Tibetan Plateau (SETP):

1. SETP_ Boundary: we centered on the traditional SETP region (i.e., the Parlung Tsangpo River basin or Bomi County) and used the surrounding river network (e.g., the Yarlung Zangbo-Brahmaputra River, Nujiang-Salween River, and their tributaries) to delineate the boundary of the SETP. This region covers the Eastern Nyainqentanglha Ranges, Eastern Himalayas, and Western Hengduan Mountains and hosts the largest maritime glacier concentration across China.

2. Topographic data: Based on NASADEM provided by NASA Earthdata, we mosaicked the DEM, slope, aspect, profile curvature (profc) and water Mask (SWB) of SETP.

3. Hillshade: We produced the hillshde with a altitude angle of 45° from the NASADEM of SETP.

File naming and required software

The boundary is stored as SHP file and the topographic data is stored as TIFF file.
The boundary and topographic data were uploaded separately. These who are interested in it can download on demand.

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Zhao, F., Long, D., Li, X., Huang, Q., Han, P. (2022). Boundary and Topographic data of the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau (2000). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112853. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

Related Literatures:

1. Zhao, F., Long, D., Li, X., Huang, Q., & Han, P. (2022). Rapid glacier mass loss in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau since the year 2000 from satellite observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270( View Details | Bibtex)

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Support Program

National Natural Science Foundation of China (51722903) (No:51722903)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (91547210) (No:91547210)

the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program (No:2019QZKK0105)

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