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The South Shetland Islands are located about 100 km northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula. The mean annual air temperature at sea level in this Maritime Antarctic region is close to \u22122 \u00b0C and, therefore, very sensitive to permafrost degradation following atmospheric warming. Among geomorphological indicators of permafrost are rock glaciers found below steep slopes as a consequence of permafrost creep, but with surficial movement also generated by solifluction and shallow landslides of rock debris and finer sediments. Rock glacier surface velocity is a new essential climate variable parameter by the Global Climate Observing System, and its historical analysis allows insight into past permafrost behavior. Recovery of 1950s aerial image stereo-pairs and structure-from-motion processing, together with the analysis of QuickBird 2007 and Pleiades 2019 high-resolution satellite imagery, allowed inferring displacements of the Hurd rock glacier using compression ridge-and-furrow morphology analysis over 60 years. Displacements measured on the rock glacier surface from 1956 until 2019 were from 7.5 m to 22.5 m and surface velocity of 12 cm\/year to 36 cm\/year, measured on orthographic images, with combined deviation root-mean-square of 2.5 m and 2.4 m in easting and northing. The inferred surface velocity also provides a baseline reference to assess today\u2019s displacements. The results show patterns of the Hurd rock glacier displacement velocity, which are analogous to those reported within the last decade, without being possible to assess any displacement acceleration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15143685","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,24]],"date-time":"2023-07-24T03:17:27Z","timestamp":1690168647000},"page":"3685","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Surface Displacement of Hurd Rock Glacier from 1956 to 2019 from Historical Aerial Frames and Satellite Imagery (Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5797-9158","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gon\u00e7alo","family":"Prates","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Estudos Geogr\u00e1ficos, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territ\u00f3rio, Universidade de Lisboa, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal"},{"name":"Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Universidade do Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal"},{"name":"Laboratorio de Astronom\u00eda, Geodesia y Cartograf\u00eda, Universidad de C\u00e1diz, 11510 C\u00e1diz, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7611-3464","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gon\u00e7alo","family":"Vieira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Estudos Geogr\u00e1ficos, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territ\u00f3rio, Universidade de Lisboa, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"RGIK (2022). 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