The acceleration of the rock glacier movement due to global warming means that the ability to move gravels (material source of debris flow) downstream is increased. Due to the warming of the climate,the rock glacier may be an important future cause of the cryosphere disaster. With the continuous development of socioeconomic and technological level,the scope of human activities is constantly expanding,more and more engineering projects are being advanced to remote high-altitude mountainous areas,which face the problem of glaciers and rock glaciers inevitably. It is important to monitor the distribution of rock glaciers in the upper reaches of the Bayu Hydropower Station. Therefore,our study uses GEOeye-1 remote sensing images with 0. 5 m resolution to identify the distribution information of rock glaciers upstream of Bayu Hydropower Station by artificial interpretation through the unique texture features of the glacier combined with the slope information extracted by SRTM. It concludes that: (1) The upstream glacier in the proposed Bayu Hydropower Station is concentrated on the north side of the Yarlung Zangbo River with a total of 27 rock glaciers,covering an area of 12. 2 0. 9 km~2 with an average area of 0. 5 km~2,and an average length of 1 456 m,and an average width of 280 m. (2) The rock glaciers are located at an elevation of 4 570 m to 5 720 m with an average terminal elevation of 4 920 m. Most rock glaciers are tongue-shaped. Thirteen (about 1 /2) rock glaciers are in the active period,of which 5 rock glaciers collapsed terminally,will lead to debris flow and other large disasters.