The reporter learned from the Aerospace Information Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that recently, China's first survey of typical glacier reserves based on airborne ice radar technology can provide key data support for water resources management and decision-making in various basins of the Hexi Corridor, ecological environment protection and regional sustainable development in the Qilian Mountains. It is reported that aviation ice radar is a type of radar installed on airplanes for perspective observation of glaciers. It emits low-frequency electromagnetic waves, such as P-band or VHF band, to the glacier, receives scattered echoes from the glacier surface and bottom bedrock, and processes and inverts them to obtain glacier thickness and storage information. This survey is based on the construction of the national major scientific and technological infrastructure "Aerial Remote Sensing System", using the Xinzhou 60 remote sensing aircraft and the certificate remote sensing aircraft, equipped with aerial ice radar and 3D LiDAR, to conduct ice river perspective detection on the 12th Glacier of Laohugou, the Qiyi Glacier, and the 3rd Glacier of Ningzaohe in Gansu Province. This survey was conducted from September to November 2024, with a total of 13 effective flights and 5.6TB of raw data collected. The results included glacier surface digital elevation model (DEM), glacier bottom bedrock digital elevation model (DEM), glacier profile map, glacier reserves, glacier 3D perspective map, and three typical glacier reserves. The accuracy evaluation of glacier thickness was completed by combining ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurement data. The acceptance expert group evaluated that the project has achieved for the first time the measurement of glacier ice thickness in complex terrain conditions in compound valleys, and the overall technology has reached the international leading level. (New Society)