Validating subglacial volcanic eruption using ground-based C-band radar imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1266-1282

  Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a,b   Lamantea, Mirko ^a   Montopoli, Mario ^a,c   Oddsson, Bjrn ^d   Gudmundsson, Magnús Tumi ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c Department of Electrical and Information Engineering ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Ash retrieval; inversion methods; radar meteorology; volcanic eruption clouds; weather radars

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA BEAMS; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; ERUPTION PLUMES; GROUND BASED; HEIGHT ESTIMATION; ICELANDICS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INVERSION METHODS; RADAR IMAGERY; RADAR METEOROLOGY; SPATIAL EXTENSION; SUBGLACIAL VOLCANIC ERUPTION; TEPHRA LAYERS; TOTAL MASS; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; TRACKING RADAR; VOLCANOES;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ASH; GLACIER DYNAMICS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; MONITORING; PLUME; RADAR IMAGERY; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ICELAND; VATNAJOKULL;

EID: 84859755873     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2167017     Document Type: Review

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