Abstract The GLIMS geospatial glacier database: A new tool for studying glacier change ☆

The Global Land Ice Measurement from Space (GLIMS) project is a cooperative effort of over sixty institutions world-wide with the goal of inventorying a majority of the world's estimated 160000 glaciers. Each institution (called a Regional Center, or RC) oversees the analysis of satellite image...

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Main Authors: Bruce Raup A, Adina Racoviteanu B, Siri Jodha, Singh Khalsa, Christopher Helm A, Richard Armstrong A, Yves Arnaud C
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2005
Subjects:
glacier monitoring
glacier change
Cordillera Blanca
open source GIS
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.114.5060
http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/pubs/raup2007b.pdf
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Summary:The Global Land Ice Measurement from Space (GLIMS) project is a cooperative effort of over sixty institutions world-wide with the goal of inventorying a majority of the world's estimated 160000 glaciers. Each institution (called a Regional Center, or RC) oversees the analysis of satellite imagery for a particular region containing glacier ice. Data received by the GLIMS team at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado are ingested into a spatially-enabled database (PostGIS) and made available via a website featuring an interactive map, and a Web-Mapping Service (WMS). The WMS, an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)-compliant web interface, makes GLIMS glacier data available to other data servers. The GLIMS Glacier Database is accessible on the World Wide Web at

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