Detecting, Modelling and Responding to Effusive Eruptions

For effusive volcanoes in resource-poor regions, there is a pressing need for a crisis response-chain bridging the global scientific community to allow provision of standard products for timely humanitarian response. As a first step in attaining this need, this Special Publication provides a complete directory of current operational capabilities for monitoring effusive eruptions. This volume also reviews the state-of-the-art in terms of satellite-based volcano hot-spot tracking and lava-flow simulation. These capabilities are demonstrated using case studies taken from well-known effusive events that have occurred worldwide over the last two decades at volcanoes such as Piton de la Fournaise, Etna, Stromboli and Kilauea. We also provide case-type response models implemented at the same volcanoes, as well as the results of a community-wide drill used to test a fully-integrated response focused on an operational hazard-GIS. Finally, the objectives and recommendations of the ‘Risk Evaluation, Detection and Simulation during Effusive Eruption Disasters’ working group are laid out in a statement of community needs by its members.
Synergistic use of satellite thermal detection and science: a decadal perspective using ASTER
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Published:January 01, 2016
Abstract
Many volcanoes around the world are poorly monitored and new eruptions increase the need for rapid ground-based monitoring, which is not always available in a timely manner. Initial observations therefore are commonly provided by orbital remote sensing instruments at different temporal, spatial and wavelength scales. Even at well-monitored volcanoes, satellite data still play an important role. The ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Radiometer) orbital sensor provides moderately high spatial resolution images in multiple wavelength regions; however, because ASTER is a scheduled instrument, the data are not acquired over specific targets every orbit. Therefore, in an attempt to improve the...
- applications
- ash clouds
- Asia
- ASTER instrument
- automated analysis
- AVHRR
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- data acquisition
- data integration
- data processing
- detection
- Earth Observing System
- effusion
- eruptions
- Far East
- global
- high-resolution methods
- imagery
- Indonesia
- infrared spectra
- instruments
- Java
- Kamchatka Peninsula
- Kamchatka Russian Federation
- lava
- lava domes
- lava flows
- mapping
- Merapi
- MODIS
- monitoring
- multispectral analysis
- orbital observations
- pixels
- precursors
- pyroclastic flows
- radiometers
- remote sensing
- Russian Federation
- Russian Pacific region
- satellite methods
- Sheveluch
- spectra
- statistical analysis
- thermal emission
- thermal infrared spectra
- time factor
- time series analysis
- Tolbachik
- volcanoes
- volcanology
- expedited data system
- Urgent Request Protocol Program