GLIMS: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

GLIMS began as an ASTER Science Team project. Through this connection, we have guided the ASTER instrument to acquire imagery of Earth's glaciers in a way that is optimized (best season and instrument gain settings) for glacier monitoring. We have also put together a network of international collaborators who analyze imagery of glaciers in their regions of expertise. Analysis results include primarily digital glacier outlines, related metadata, and literature references, and increasingly includes snow lines, center flow lines, and hypsometry data. Surface velocity fields will be included in the future. Results from analysis done by the Regional Centers are sent for archive to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).