GLIMS Workshop 2007, Perugia, Italy

This workshop was less formal than past ones. We had a few planned talks for the morning, but formulated the rest of the agenda the morning of the workshop, based on the interests of the attendees. The final agenda is listed below. You can also read a summary of the discussions (HTML, PDF).

• Status of international glacier monitoring programs (Michael Zemp) (PDF)
• Update on GlobGlacier (Frank Paul) (PDF)
• BREAK
• update on GLIMS database contents and interfaces (Bruce Raup) (PDF)
• Applications and limits of inventory data (Atsumu Ohmura) (PDF)
• LUNCH
• Demo of new GLIMSView and using it to format data for GLIMS (Bruce Raup)
• PROMICE: A new monitoring programme for the Greenland ice sheet (GLIMS activities) (Andreas Ahlstrom) (PDF)
• Glacier change near Mt. Everest using Corona/ASTER (Tobias Bolch) (PDF)
• BREAK
• General Discussion
• glacier mapping tools, techniques
• outline determination; data model
• Quality control, error tracking
• DEM generation, evaluation, and use
• satellite scene selection criteria
• Integration of GLIMS into GTN, GCOS, etc. (Frank Paul)