The Austrian Glacier Inventory for the Little Ice Age Maximum (GI LIA) in ArcGIS (shapefile) format@en

Groß and Patzelt mapped the glacier areas for the Little Ice Age (LIA) maximum state from the position of the moraines and field surveys based on the orthophotos of the glacier inventory of 1969. As the Austrian federal authorities made LiDAR data available for the major part of Austria, these data have been used for the compilation of a new LIA glacier inventory based on LiDAR DEMs. As the high resolution data allow detailed mapping of LIA moraines, the unpublished maps of Groß have been used as the basis for an accurate mapping of the area and elevation of the LIA moraines, based on the LiDAR DEMs and the ice divides/glacier names used in the inventories 1969 and 1998. The date related to the glacier outlines in this inventory differs from glacier to glacier.