HR: 0800h
AN: C51B-0286    [Abstracts]
TI: First Results of GLIMS Database Population for Former Soviet Union Glacier Regions
AU: * Khromova, T
EM: glacgis@orc.ru
AF: Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 80303 Russian Federation
AU: Nosenko, G
EM: glacgis@orc.org
AF: Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 80303 Russian Federation
AU: Armstrong, R
EM: rlax@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Dat Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Raup, B
EM: braup@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Dat Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Khalsa, S S
EM: sjsk@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Dat Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AU: Barry, R
EM: rbarry@nsidc.org
AF: National Snow and Ice Dat Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 United States
AB: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) is an international project with the goal of surveying a majority of the world's estimated 160,000 glaciers. GLIMS uses data collected primarily by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument aboard the Terra satellite and the LandSat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) provide the satellite data and support the GLIMS coordination and data management effort. With NASA funding, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has developed the GLIMS Glacier Database. In the presentation we demonstrate first results of GLIMS glacier data base population for glacier regions of FSU. With support under a NASA REASoN CAN more than 2000 glacier outlines for Caucasus, Pamir and Tien-Shan have been derived from ASTER images and provided in a standard form for ingest into the GLIMS database. Statistical analysis has been done to estimate number of glaciers and their areas in comparison with data of World glacier inventory. The ability to view and download these data through an OGC-compliant web-based interface will be demonstrated. -
DE: 0700 CRYOSPHERE (4540)
DE: 0720 Glaciers
DE: 1621 Cryospheric change (0776)
DE: 1640 Remote sensing (1855)
SC: Cryosphere [C]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005