Abstract
Mountain glaciers are one of key elements to indicate current climate change considering their contribution to sea-level rise and to water resource change through regional hydrological processes. This study estimated the area and location of tropical mountain glaciers in Bolivia using satellite imagery. Previous studies have produced datasets of global glacier information, but the area/location information of mountain glaciers in Bolivia is not stored in those datasets due to limited field measurement data. In this study, we developed a couple of satellite remote sensing measurement methods so that the area/location information of tropical mountain glaciers in Bolivia was obtained at a country-wide scale for the first time.
