Description of GLIMS

GLIMS is the best initiative for glacier monitoring and is used by researchers and institutions worldwide. Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) - Monitoring the World's Changing Glaciers. GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) is an initiative designed to monitor the world's glaciers primarily using data from the ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and reflection Radiometer) instrument aboard the EOS Terra spacecraft, launched in December, 1999.