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Global Land Ice Measurements from SpaceThe NSIDC at the University of Colorado has successfully completed the tasks outlined in its proposal 0999.08.1216B, the 'Global Land Ice Measurements from Space' grant funded by NASA under NAG5-9722. The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) grant reported on here is one of the first completed elements of the overall GLIMS project that continues with separate funding from NASA, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and internationally by many national agencies and universities. The primary goals of GLIMS are to survey significant numbers of the world's 160,000 glaciers with data collected by the ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and reflection Radiometer) instrument aboard the EOS Terra spacecraft, and Landsat ETM+ (Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus) and to make these data available to users in a common and easily usable format. GLIMS participants include: NSIDC as developer of the GLIMS database, USGS Flagstaff as the GLIMS Coordination Center, USGS EROS Data Center (EDC) as the archive for satellite imagery used in GLIMS analyses (NASA funding for GLIMS also includes the Flagstaff group and EDC through the related ASTER Science Team and Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center [LP DAAC] activities), and approximately twenty two Regional Centers (RCs). RCs are funded by the national agencies of participating countries to analyze satellite imagery for a specified set of glaciological parameters and provide the results to NSIDC for archive and distribution to the public.
Document ID
20040111284
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Contractor or Grantee Report
Authors
Scharfen, Gregory R. (Colorado Univ. CO, United States)
Troisi, Vincent J. (Colorado Univ. CO, United States)
Barry, Roger G. (Colorado Univ. CO, United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
July 31, 2004
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-9722
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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