Remote sensing studies have shown that glaciers and their proximal environments exhibit
unique temporal, spatial and spectral characteristics that can be analysed to better quantify …

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 …

Glacier changes are having impacts on processes of global importance such as sea-level
rise, hydrology of mountain-fed rivers, freshwater balance of oceans, and even the shape …

Automated glacier mapping from satellite multispectral image data is hampered by debris
cover on glacier surfaces. Supraglacial debris exhibits the same spectral properties as …

A new Swiss glacier inventory is to be compiled from satellite data for the year 2000. The
study presented here describes two major tasks: an accuracy assessment of different …

Analyses of multispectral satellite data indicate accelerated glacier decline around the globe
since the 1980s. By using digitized glacier outlines inferred from the 1973 inventory and …

High mountains represent one of the most dynamic environments on earth. Monitoring their
terrain changes is necessary to understand mass-transport systems, to detect related …

Many advances in spaceborne instrumentation, remote sensing, and data analysis have
occurred in recent years, but until now there has been no book that reflects these advances …

Glacial hazards such as ice avalanches, glacial lake outburst floods, and debris flows have
caused severe damage in populated mountain regions such as the Swiss Alps. Assessment …

The present study evaluates the fusion of DEMs from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal
Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument and the Shuttle Radar …