Software recommendations

Glacier outlines in the GLIMS Glacier Database have been produced using various software products. Early in GLIMS' history, the GLIMSView package (below) was developed for doing basic manual digitization and then exporting the data and metadata into a format that can be ingested into the database directly. GLIMSView has not been maintained, and now GLIMS collaborators tend to use software from the following list.

• QGIS (Linux, MacOS, Windows)
• GRASS GIS (Linux, MacOS, Windows)
• ArcGIS (Windows only)

If you have developed scripts or plugins for GLIMS work, please let us know. We would like to share such work with the community.

The legacy GLIMSView software can be obtained here.