Detecting the development of active lava flow fields with a very-long-range terrestrial laser scanner and thermal imagery

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2009, Pages

  James, M R ^a   Pinkerton, H ^a   Applegarth, L J ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EFFUSION RATES; FLOW FEATURES; IRREGULAR DATA; LASER RETURN; LAVA FLOWS; MOUNT ETNA; OBLIQUE VIEW; SPATIAL EXTENT; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; THERMAL IMAGERY; THERMAL IMAGES; TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGES; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

FLOW FIELDS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

SCANNING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; INFLATION; LAVA FLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VOLCANIC ASH;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 72049111479     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040701     Document Type: Article

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