An emergent strategy for volcano hazard assessment: From thermal satellite monitoring to lava flow modeling

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2012, Pages 197-207

  Ganci, Gaetana ^a   Vicari, Annamaria ^a   Cappello, Annalisa ^a,b   Del Negro, Ciro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Etna volcano; GIS; Infrared remote sensing; Lava hazard assessment; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE RATES; EMPLACEMENT CONDITIONS; ETNA VOLCANOS; FUNCTION OF TIME; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; LAVA FLOW PATHS; LAVA FLOWS; LAVA HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAVA VOLUMES; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; PROPAGATION TIME; RADIATIVE POWER; REAL TIME; RUNOUT DISTANCES; SATELLITE MONITORING; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMAL EMISSIONS; THERMAL MONITORING SYSTEMS; TIME VARYING; TIME-AVERAGED; VOLCANIC PROCESS; VOLCANO HAZARDS; WEB-GIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; VOLCANOES;

HAZARDS;

GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAVA; LAVA FLOW; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SEVIRI; SIR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VULNERABILITY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 84856070861     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.12.021     Document Type: Article

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