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Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS)

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U.S.G.S. research project using the world's glaciers to monitor climate change.

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Title: GLIMS: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space
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Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) - Using the World's Glaciers to Monitor Climate Change. GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) is a project designed to monitor the world's glaciers primarily using data from the ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and reflection Radiometer) instrument aboard the EOS Terra spacecraft, launched in December, 1999.

Category: Assessment - Environmental - Remote - Sensing - Global - Monitoring - Warming - Climate - Change - Aster - Glacier - Glims


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