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Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2851-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2851-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
Research article
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21 May 2026
Research article |  | 21 May 2026

Enhancing lake identification in Alpine periglacial environments by leveraging the global context of transformers

Jinhao Xu, Min Feng, Yijie Sui, Yanan Su, Xuefei Zhang, Qinglin Wu, Zhimin Hu, and Ruilin Wang

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Lakes in alpine periglacial environments are expanding rapidly under climate warming, but their detection and classification remain difficult because of complex terrain and spectral interference. We developed a vision-transformer-based framework to delineate lake boundaries and distinguish contemporary glacial lakes from other lakes. Applied to the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, it identified 3,266 lakes, including many as small as 0.0001 km².

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