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How do we remotely measure long-term changes in glaciers ?
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For ice mass fluxes:

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/GRACE_Revised/
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/

For spatial resolution:

Laser Altimetry

ICESAT: http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov
 
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Date 9/17/2009

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