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.
- accuracy
- algorithms
- artificial intelligence
- AVHRR
- data integration
- data processing
- detection
- effusion
- Europe
- geophysical methods
- hot spots
- imagery
- infrared methods
- instruments
- Italy
- methods
- MODIS
- monitoring
- Mount Etna
- neural networks
- pixels
- rates
- remote sensing
- satellite methods
- Sicily Italy
- Southern Europe
- temperature
- thermal anomalies
- three-dimensional models
- volcanic risk
- METEOSAT
- SEVIRI
- AVHotRR
