DInSAR for a Regional Inventory of Active Rock Glaciers in the Dry Andes Mountains of Argentina and Chile with Sentinel-1 Data

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Cristian Villarroel, Guillermo Tamburini Beliveau, Ana Forte, Oriol Monserrat, Monica Morvillo
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: DInSAR; Sentinel 1; rock glacier inventories; mountain permafrost; Dry Andes; Argentina; The Sentinel; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101588

The Dry Andes region of Argentina and Chile is characterized by a highly developed periglacial environment. In these arid or semi-arid regions, rock glaciers represent one of the main pieces of evidence of mountain creeping permafrost and water reserves in a solid state. However, their distribution,...