Source Code and Data for Glacial Lake Classification in the Parlung Zangbo Basin (PLZB) version 1.0

However, automatic classification remains challenging. The proposed method integrates glacier centerlines, glacial meltwater flow paths, and glacier retreat zones to classify lakes into five types: supraglacial, ice-contact, glacier-proximal, glacier-distal, and non-glacially-fed lakes.

This dataset contains the source code, input data, intermediate outputs, and final classification results for automatically identifying glacial lake types in the Parlung Zangbo Basin (PLZB), Tibetan Plateau. Specifically, it includes (1) multi‑source input data (glacier/lake inventories, NASADEM, flow direction raster, glacier retreat zones, basin boundaries); (2) Python scripts for extracting glacier minimum points and performing the full classification (with detailed annotations); and (3) all intermediate (cache) and output files, including classification results in shapefile and Excel formats, meltwater inflow channels, and summary statistics at sub‑basin and micro‑basin levels.