Monitoring topographic changes in a periglacial high-mountain face using high-resolution DTMs, Monte Rosa East Face, Italian Alps

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-152

  Fischer, Luzia ^a   Eisenbeiss, Henri ^b   Kääb, Andreas ^c   Huggel, Christian ^a   Haeberli, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

High resolution DTM; Ice avalanche; LiDAR; Mountain permafrost; Periglacial rock wall; Photogrammetry; Rock avalanche; Slope instability; Topographic changes

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; BEDROCK; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; LIDAR; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK AVALANCHE; ROCK GLACIER; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; ITALY; MONTE ROSA; PENNINE ALPS;

EID: 79958849947     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.717     Document Type: Article

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