Clustering and classification of infrasonic events at Mount Etna using pattern recognition techniques

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 253-264

  Cannata, A ^a   Montalto, P ^a,b   Aliotta, M ^a,b   Cassisi, C ^b   Pulvirenti, A ^b   Privitera, E ^a   Patane D ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Time series analysis; Volcano monitoring; Volcano seismology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VOLCANOES; CLUSTERING PROCESS; DENSITY-BASED SPATIAL CLUSTERING OF APPLICATIONS WITH NOISE; EVENT LOCATION; EXPLOSIVE ACTIVITY; FEATURE SPACE; INFORMATION CONCERNING; INFRASONIC SIGNALS; INFRASOUND; LOCATION ALGORITHMS; LOCATION METHOD; MODEL-BASED; MOUNT ETNA; MT. ETNA; PARAMETRIC POWER SPECTRUM; PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES; PEAK AMPLITUDE; PEAK FREQUENCIES; QUALITY FACTORS; TRAINING PHASE; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; VOLCANO MONITORING; VOLCANO SEISMOLOGY; WAVE FORMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SEISMOLOGY; TIME SERIES; VOLCANOES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFRASONICS; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANOLOGY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 79952648562     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04951.x     Document Type: Article

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