The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) initiative is a cooperative effort of over sixty institutions world-wide with the goal of inventorying and monitoring a majority of the world\'s estimated 160000 glaciers. Each GLIMS institution oversees the analysis of satellite imagery for a particular region containing glacier ice. Data received by the GLIMS team at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado are inserted into a geospatial database and made available via an on-line interactive map, text-based search interface, a Web Map Service (WMS), and a Web Feature Service (WFS). The GLIMS Glacier Database contains outlines for glaciers smapping all continents having glacial ice. This OGC Web Service is designed to serve GLIMS Glacier Outlines (http://www.glims.org) via the OGC WMS and WFS protocols.

Staðsetning íslenskra jökla ásamt nafni og GLIMS auðkenni. Útlínur dregnar eftir uppréttum Sentinel-2 og Pléiades gervihnattamyndum ásamt loftmyndum frá Loftmyndum ehf. á stöku stað. Útlínur hafa verið mældar í kringum 1890, 1945-1946, 1970-1980, 1998-2004, 2007-2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 og 2025 og öll gagnalögin er að finna í þjónustum Veðurstofnunnar.