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Research article
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21 Apr 2021
Research article |
| 21 Apr 2021
| 21 Apr 2021
A new automatic approach for extracting glacier centerlines based on Euclidean allocation
College of Geography and Environment Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Xiaojun Yao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
College of Geography and Environment Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
National Cryosphere Desert Data Center, Lanzhou, China
Hongyu Duan
College of Geography and Environment Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
Shiyin Liu
Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Wanqin Guo
State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Meiping Sun
College of Geography and Environment Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
Dazhi Li
College of Geography and Environment Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
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Short summary
Glacier centerlines are crucial input for many glaciological applications. We propose a new algorithm to derive glacier centerlines and implement the corresponding program in Python language. Application of this method to 48 571 glaciers in the second Chinese glacier inventory automatically yielded the corresponding glacier centerlines with an average computing time of 20.96 s, a success rate of 100 % and a comprehensive accuracy of 94.34 %.
Glacier centerlines are crucial input for many glaciological applications. We propose a new...
