HKH-PK-2020: Glacial Lake Inventory of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (Pakistan) Derived from PlanetScope Imagery (September 2020)

This dataset contains 8,808 glacial lake boundaries (total area: ~136 km²) mapped from PlanetScope satellite imagery (September 2020) across the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region of Pakistan. The lakes were delineated manually with careful inspection, as part of a broader effort to monitor cryospheric hazards (e.g., GLOF risks) in the HKH. This work is supported by the National Geographic Society and Microsoft through its "AI for Earth Innovation" program. The imagery used in this work is a Planet Labs product - 2023 PBC., and has been accessed freely under their education and research support program. The inventory is provided as ESRI shapefiles (inside a zipped folder). The CRS is EPSG:4326. The column "Shape_Area" in the attributes table provides lake areas in square meters. Recommended Citation Please cite the following publication when using this dataset: Siddique, M. A., Basit, A., Qayyum, N., Naseer, E., Bhatti, M. K., Minchew, B., ... & Marino, A. (2023, July). Towards Automated Monitoring Of Glacial Lakes In Hindu Kush And Himalayas Using Deep Learning. *IGARSS 2023-2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium* (pp. 2165-2168). IEEE.DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10281471 For details (e.g., lake classification methodology, performance metrics), please refer to the above paper.