ASTER datasets and derived products for global glacier monitoring

This book investigates a wide selection of the world’s glaciers and the status of remote-sensing and GIS technologies designed to address their global monitoring in this age of rapid climate change impacts on glaciers and increasing awareness of the policy and economic relevance of glaciers in areas as diverse as water resources and geohazards. This chapter focuses on an important part of the data component, especially data from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) project, which also spawned the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) project as an ASTER Science Team member project (see Foreword by Hugh Kieffer). ASTER’s combination of sensor systems, spanning the visible through thermal infrared and its stereo-imaging capability, the high radiometric and geometric fidelity of the cameras, combined with a liberal data dissemination policy for glacier images, have made it a favored instrument for glacier remote-sensing studies. Operational use of the instrument with on-demand targeting has also aided specific studies ranging from preplanned field campaigns to rapid response to glacier-related disasters.

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