Early warning for volcanic activity investigated from the 2008 Chaiten eruption based on long-term observation by microwave radiometer

Author

Maeda, Takashi ; Takano, Tadashi

Author_Institution

Earth Obs. Res. Center, Japan Aerosp. Exploration Agency, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

13-20 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A microwave radiometer can observe thermal emission from the ground with less contamination by clouds than an infrared radiometer. However, because its spatial resolution is large, if an analysis method to compensate the disadvantage is developed, it should be more suitable to issue an alert for a volcanic activity in the early stage before an eruption. We have investigated an analysis method to detect local changes from the data of a satellite-borne microwave radiometer. We then applied this method for the Chaiten volcano in Chile, which was severely erupted in 2008. In this paper, the analysis results are presented.

Keywords

data analysis; geophysical techniques; microwave measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; volcanology; AD 2008; Chaiten volcano eruption; Chile; data analysis; ground thermal emission; local change detection; long-term observation; satellite-borne microwave radiometer; spatial resolution; volcanic activity early warning; Microwave radiometry; Microwave theory and techniques; Monitoring; Rocks; Spatial resolution; Volcanoes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6050851

Filename

6050851