SPICE

SPICE is a 3-year research project which commenced in November 2002 funded under the European Union program Environment and Sustainable Development action for "Global change, climate and biodiversity " (EU 5th Framwork). The main objective is:

To develop a scheme in which satellite data of varying nature can be combined to give detailed information on the mass budget of ice caps. To obtain a certain degree of reliability, an effort will be made to verify retrieval algorithms with in situ measurements, because we believe that this has been a weak point in the application of satellite data for glacier studies.