InSAR (space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry) data has revealed to be useful for surveying landslides and permafrost creeping features (e.g. rock glaciers) as it permits a time-lapse quantification of topography changes at mm to cm resolution ...

The potential of ERS InSAR for detecting slope motion in a periglacial mountain environment has been tested in the western part of the Swiss Alps. An inventory has been built from the analysis of the InSAR data. It contains a large number of areas that ...

Rockglaciers are permanently frozen sediments supersaturated with ice deforming steadily and slowly on periglacial mountain slopes. The frequency of alpine rockglaciers affected by “surge” (landslide-like) processes has increased during the ...