Glacier monitoring is becoming increasingly important due to global climate change and its effects on glaciers. The remote sensing of glaciers has been carried out using numerous methods, but the possibilities of modern technology for operational monitoring have not yet been fully evaluated. The mission of the OMEGA project is to develop an operational monitoring system for glaciers using all the potential earth observation data of the past, present and future. Digital elevation models will be generated, glacier changes will be studied and visualised, and the results will be implemented as glacier databases and an operational monitoring system.

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