Assessment and improvement of a robust satellite technique (RST) for thermal monitoring of volcanoes

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1556-1563

  Marchese, F ^a   Filizzola, C ^a   Genzano, N ^b   Mazzeo, G ^a   Pergola, N ^a,b   Tramutoli, V ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

NOAA AVHRR; Robust satellite technique; Thermal monitoring; Volcanoes

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT; ERUPTIVE ACTIVITY; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HAZARD MITIGATIONS; HOT SPOT; MT. ETNA; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NOAA AVHRR; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZED CONFIGURATION; RELIABILITY AND SENSITIVITY; ROBUST SATELLITE TECHNIQUE; SATELLITE DATA; THERMAL MONITORING; VALIDATION ANALYSIS; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; VOLCANO MONITORING;

DATA REDUCTION; MONITORING; SATELLITES;

VOLCANOES;

AVHRR; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; NOAA SATELLITE; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 79953213615     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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