Glacier Monitoring from Space

For more than 125 years, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) and its predecessor organizations have been in charge of the internationally coordinated glacier monitoring. The WGMS is compiling, analyzing and disseminating data and information of glacier changes in length, area, volume and mass. These data are collected from a worldwide network of in-situ programs and combined with assessments from space-borne remote sensing. The WGMS actively fosters glacier observations from space through research and development projects of the European Space Agency (https://climate.esa.int/en/) as well as by providing  glacier distribution and change services to the Copernicus Climate Change Service and to the Global Climate Observing System.