Annual 30-meter Dataset for Glacial Lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017

We developed a High Mountain Asia (HMA) Glacial Lake Inventory (Hi-MAG) database to characterize the annual coverage of glacial lakes from 2008 to 2017 at 30 m resolution. This is the first glacier lake inventory across the HMA providing details for size and type of glacial lakes at high spatial resolution, and the first with annual temporal resolution. Although the method of lake mapping was automatic, for quality control every lake polygon was inspected and was manually edited where needed. It can be used for studies on glacier-climate-lake interactions, glacio-hydrologic models, glacial lake outburst floods and potential downstream risks and water resources.