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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1955-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1955-2021
Research article
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21 Apr 2021
Research article |  | 21 Apr 2021

A new automatic approach for extracting glacier centerlines based on Euclidean allocation

Dahong Zhang, Xiaojun Yao, Hongyu Duan, Shiyin Liu, Wanqin Guo, Meiping Sun, and Dazhi Li

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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 %.