Monitoring Rock Glacier Kinematics with Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Strozzi, Tazio, Caduff, Rafael, Jones, Nina, Barboux, Chloe, Delaloye, Reynald, Bodin, Xavier, Kääb, Andreas, Mätzler, Eva, Schrott, Lothar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Greenland; Qeqertarsuaq; glacier; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/82245; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-85168; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030559

Active rock glaciers represent the best visual expression of mountain permafrost that can be mapped and monitored directly using remotely sensed data. Active rock glaciers are bodies that consist of a perennially frozen ice/rock mixture and express a distinct flow-like morphology indicating downslop...