The homogenized glacier inventories for South Tirol 1997-2005-2017

Data set of three homogenized glacier inventories for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol for the reference years 1997, 2005 and 2017 in ESRI-shapefile format. The shapefiles are supplemented by a MS-excel file containing analyses of glacier changes between the single inventories and a detailed technical report describing the inventories and the underlying data and methods. The inventories were compiled based on orthophoto and airborne laser-scanning data using a homogenized methodology to enable for direct comparisons between the single inventories. Besides the vectorized glacier outlines and several identifiers (glacier names and WGMS/CGI codes), the inventories provide information on typical topographic parameters such as glacier area, min max and median altitude, main aspect, slope and geographic location.