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Changes in the Skuta Glacier (southeastern Alps) assessed using non-metric images
- Source :
- Acta geographica Slovenica. 60:175-190
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts / Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti (ZRC SAZU), 2020.
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Abstract
- The Skuta Glacier in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps (in northern Slovenia) is one of the two remaining glaciers in Slovenia. It is located in a cirque oriented toward the northwest, which shields it from sunlight for most of the year. The glacier lies at an average elevation of 2070m. In recent years, its average area has measured around 1.5 hectares. Monitoring of the glacier has been performed since 1946. In 1962, regular photographing of the glacier with various cameras started from various non-fixed standpoints. Using the single image interactive orientation acquisition method, in which a single photograph is compared with the projection of a modern digital terrain model, seventeen photographs covering the period from 1970 to 2015 were used to acquire the 3D-perimeters of the glacier. The data shows that the elevation of glacier’s upper edge decreased by approximately 40m in the last half-century. Changes in the glacier’s area and average upper edge elevation were compared with average annual temperature and maximum seasonal snow cover depth.
- Subjects :
- geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
Cirque
0211 other engineering and technologies
Elevation
Climate change
021107 urban & regional planning
Glacier
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
Period (geology)
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Non metric
Physical geography
Digital elevation model
Snow cover
Geology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15818314 and 15816613
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta geographica Slovenica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2786c338b261d158a3c7aab5b79e4def