Canadian Ice Service (CIS), At the Canadian Ice Service (CIS), our mission is to provide the most accurate and timely information about ice in Canada"s navigable waters. We work to promote safe and efficient maritime operations and to help protect Canada"s environment.
| Global Land Ice Measurements from Space GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) is a project designed to monitor the world"s glaciers primarily using data from optical satellite instruments, such as ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and reflection Radiometer).
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Juneau Ice Field Research Program Since 1946, JIRP has conducted long term research on the interrelationships of the earth systems disciplines to understand the total environment and resource potentials of arctic and mountain regions.
| NSIDC, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. NSIDC supports research into our world"s frozen realms: the snow, ice, glacier, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth"s cryosphere.
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World Glacier Monitoring Service collects standardised observations on changes in mass, volume, area and length of glaciers with time (glacier fluctuations), as well as statistical information on the distribution of perennial surface ice in space (glacier inventories).
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