Satellite image atlas of glaciers of the world : south America /
edited by Richard S. Williams and Jane G. Ferrigno.
- Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1998.
- vii, iii, I206 p. : ill., maps, tables ; 29 cm.
- 1386 .
Landsat images, together with aerial photographs and maps where available, have been used to produce glacier inventories, define glacier locations, support on-going field studies of glacier dynamics, and monitor the extensive glacier recession that has taken place and is continuing in many parts of South America.