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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS010 Oral Presentation 2075<br />

A robust multitemporal satellite approach for thermal volcanic activity<br />

monitoring<br />

Dr. Francesco Marchese<br />

DIFA University of Basilicata<br />

Nicola Pergola, Carolina Filizzola, Maurizio Ciampa, Valerio Tramutoli, Irina<br />

Coviello<br />

In the world there are more than 1500 active volcanoes, many of these are located in very densely<br />

populated regions representing a serious risk both for local residents and infrastructures. From decades<br />

satellite remote sensing is used to study thermal volcanic activity thanks to low cost data, high<br />

observational frequencies and global coverage. Recently, a new multi-temporal satellite approach,<br />

named RST (Robust Satellite Techniques) has been applied to several recent eruption of Mount Etna,<br />

Stromboli and Merapi volcanoes showing to be suitable to successfully detecting and monitoring hot<br />

volcanic features, strongly reducing false alarms occurrences. An automatic satellite monitoring system,<br />

based on this approach, has also been developed at IMAA (Institute of Methodologies for Environmental<br />

Analysis) to monitor Italian volcanoes in near real time, processing AVHRR data. This system is capable<br />

of providing, a few minutes after the direct acquisition of raw data, thermal anomaly maps and alert log<br />

files, reporting the exact geographic location of hot spots and their relative intensity. RST approach has<br />

been successfully implemented also on new geostationary satellite MSG-SEVIRI, with improved<br />

performances in terms of sensitivity and reliability. Moreover, the geostationary attitude of SEVIRI<br />

assures a higher observational frequency allowing us to promptly identifying new eruptive events at<br />

very early stage within an actual early warning context. A summary of recent RST results for thermal<br />

volcanic activity monitoring, both using polar and geostationary satellites, will be shown and discussed<br />

also in terms of operational purposes.<br />

Keywords: hotspots, volcanoes, satellite

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