Within this polar project of our team, spanning the period 1998-1999, we developed a bidimensional model of the steady-state dynamics of temperate glaciers, which we applied to simulate the dynamics of flowplanes of Abramov glacier, Alai Ridge, Central Asia, and Johnsons glacier, Livingston Island, Antarctica. We also developed, in collaboration with the Academies of Sciences of Russia and Uzbekistan, a new ground-penetrating radar (VIRL2) for glaciological applications, with transmitter-receiver synchronisation by radio link, first used on Aldegondabreen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, in spring 1999, and then, in December 1999, on Johnsons glacier.