Detecting imminent eruptive activity at Mt Etna, Italy, in 2007-2008 through pattern classification of volcanic tremor data

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Langer, H ^a   Falsaperla, S ^a   Messina, A ^a   Spampinato, S ^a   Behncke, B ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Mt. Etna; Pattern recognition; Self Organizing Maps; Volcanic tremor; Volcano monitoring

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DYNAMIC REGIMES; EARLY WARNING; ERUPTIVE ACTIVITY; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; FLANK ERUPTIONS; FUZZY CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITIES; MAGMA ASCENTS; MT. ETNA; ON-LINE APPLICATIONS; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC DATAS; SPECTRAL CONTENT; STATE TRANSITIONS; VOLCANIC TREMOR; VOLCANIC UNREST; VOLCANO MONITORING;

DATA PROCESSING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEISMOLOGY; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; VOLCANOES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTION METHOD; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 78751580355     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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