Introduction to cryosphere, snow, ice and glaciers, snow cover mapping, estimation of snow pack characteristics, snow melt runoff modeling, polar cryosphere, ice sheet topography, iceberg detection, monitoring iceberg drift, measurement of iceberg thickness and ice sheet surface temperature, glacier geomorphology, glacier facies mapping, glacier inventory, mass balance studies, glacier retreat and glacier movement, avalanche forecasting, mapping potential avalanche prone zones, warning and mitigation, case studies .

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