Defining high-detail hazard maps by a cellular automata approach: Application to mount etna (Italy)

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 568-578

  Rongo, Rocco ^a   Avolio, Maria Vittoria ^a   Behncke, Boris ^b   D'Ambrosio, Donato ^a   di Gregorio, Salvatore ^a   Lupiano, Valeria ^a   Neri, Marco ^b   Spataro, William ^a   Crisci, Gino M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAVA FLOW; MAP; RHEOLOGY; VOLCANOLOGY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84855851869     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-5340     Document Type: Article

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