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<p>GLIMS may have had a good year for ASTER acquisitions. Some of you analyzed success/failure in sample areas of your regions of interest in previous years. Those checks provided the feedstock for complaints I made about poor coverage. It only took 17 years,
but it seems we finally had a good year. Some areas were under-served (central and eastern Himalaya for instance), but some places that historically had very few images (European Alps and Alaska) had a good summer in 2016, so it seems.</p>
<p>Further checks in 2016 (and southern hemisphere in 2017) could be checked again. Hopefully clouds aren't too bad; l that's my one worry.</p>
<p>--Jeff K</p>
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