Now that we have QGIS up and running let's start looking at some publicly available data sets for the Western Indian Himalayas which we can import and analyze in QGIS.
In November 2020 the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) part of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) created a Glacial Lakes atlas of the Indus River Basin identifying more then 5000 high altitude lakes:
https://lib.icimod.org/record/35038You can download the data set in CSV format over here:
https://tinyurl.com/ISRO-glacial-lakesTo import the data in QGIS, choose "Layer", "Add Layer", "Add delimited text layer". Select the downloaded CSV file in the File Name and ensure Lon, Lat and CRS are set properly in the Geometry Definition section. See Image 3 below. Click Add to add a new vector layer in the QGIS main screen showing 5000 glacial lakes
