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: Villarroel, Cristian Daniel, Tamburini Beliveau, Guillermo, Forte, Ana Paula, Monserrat, Oriol, Morvillo, Mónica
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 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,...