InhaltsangabePart I. Glacier Monitoring and Fundamentals of Glacier Remote Sensing.- 1. Introduction: Global Glacier Monitoring - long term task.- 2. Theoretical Foundations of Remote Sensing for Glacier Assessement and Mapping.- 3.Radiative Transfer Modeling in Glaciers and Glacier Lakes.- 4. Glacier Mapping and Monitoring Using Multi-Spectral Data.- 5. Digital Terrain Modeling and Glacier Topographic Characterization.- 6. ASTER Data, Data Products and Image Acquisitions.- 7. Quality in GLIMS Glacier Database.- Part II. Regional Chapters.- 8. Mapping of Glaciers in Greenland.- 9. Remote Sensing of Recent Glacier Changes in the Canadian Arctic.- 10. Digital Glacier Database for Svalbard.- 11. Glaciers of Kenai Fjords National Park and Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska.- 12.Glacier Dammed Lakes, Alaska.- 13. Glacier of Chugach, Alaska.- 14. Remote Sensing of Glaciers in the Canadian Cordillera, Western Canada.- 15. ASTER and DEM Change Assessment of Glaciers Near Hoodoo Mountain, British Columbia, Canada.- 16. Glaciers of the Ragged Range, Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories, Canada.- 17. Glaciers and Perennial Snowfields of the U.S. Cordillera.- 18. Remote Sensing of Glaciers and Icecaps in Iceland.- 19. Norway.- 20. European Alps.- 21.Satellite Inventory of Glaciers in Turkey.- 22. Recent Glacier Changes in the Mongolian Altai Mountains: Case Studies from Munkh Khairkhan and Tavan Bogd.- 23. Remote Sensing of Glaciers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.- 24. Himalayan Glaciers.- 25. Glaciers in China and Their Variations.- Part III.- 26. Remote Sensing of Rapidly Diminishing Tropical Glaciers in the Northern Andes.- 27. A New Glacier Inventory of the Southern Patagonia Icefield and Areal Changes 1986-2000.- 28. First Glacier Inventory and Recent Glacier Variations of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and Islands of Southern Chile.- 29. New Zealand's Glaciers.- 30. Monitoring Glacier Changes on the Anatarctic Peninsula.- 31. Mapping Blue Ice Areas and Crevasses in West Antarctica Using ASTER Images, GPS and Radar Measurements.- 32. Remote Sensing of Glaciers of the Subantarctic Islands.- Part IV. Summary.- 33.  Executive Summary.