Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism

About this book

Remote sensing is an essential tool for many Earth and planetary scientists. When studying the atmosphere, the land, the ocean floor, or for that matter the surfaces of other planets, remote sensing has deepened and expanded our understanding in immediate and dramatic ways. This is especially true for volcanologists concerned with active volcanic processes. Technological advances in collecting data from a satellite or an aircraft, however, also require human skills specific to the medium, and nowhere more so than in processing and interpreting data in ways that are different from those skills needed with a field-oriented approach. In Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism on the remote sensing of active volcanoes, we clarify and address those differences. At the same time, we seek to stimulate greater interaction between remote sensing specialists and field volcanologists, aided by the tutorials and background information we have included.

Contents

Dedication to Peter Francis
      Dave Rothery, Shan de Silva, and Peter Mouginis-Mark vii
Preface
      Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Joy A. Crisp, and Jonathan H. Fink ix
Introduction
      Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Joy A. Crisp, and Jonathan H. Fink 1
Acquisition of Satellite Data for Volcano Studies
      Peter J. Mouginis-Mark and Natalie Domergue-Schmidt 9

Volcanic Plumes
Ultraviolet Remote Sensing of Volcanic Emissions
      Arlin J. Krueger, Stephen J. Schaefer, Nickolay Krotkov, Gregg Bluth, and Sharon Barker  25
TOMS and AVHRR Observations of Drifting Volcanic Clouds From the August 1991 Eruptions of Cerro Hudson
      Emily K. Constantine, Gregg J. S. Bluth, and William I. Rose 45
Monitoring and Analyses of Volcanic Activity Using Remote Sensing Data at the Alaska Volcano Observatory: Case Study for Kamchatka, Russia, December 1997
      D. J. Schneider, K. G. Dean, J. Dehn, T. P. Miller, andV. Yu. Kirianov 65
Retrieval of Sulfate and Silicate Ash Masses in Young (1 to 4 Days Old) Eruption Clouds Using Multiband Infrared HIRS/2 Data
      Tianxu Yu and William I. Rose  87

Volcanic Gases
The Potential Use of Earth Observing System Data to Monitor the Passive Emission of Sulfur Dioxide From Volcanoes
      V. J. Realmuto 101
Passive Infrared Spectroscopic Remote Sensing of Volcanic Gases: Ground-Based Studies at White Island and Ruapehu, New Zealand, and Popocatepetl, Mexico
      Steven P. Love, Fraser Goff, Stephen C. Schmidt, Dale Counce, Donald Pettit, Bruce W. Christenson, and Claus Siebe 117

Thermal Properties
Real-time Satellite Monitoring of Volcanic Hot Spots
      Andrew J. L. Harris, Luke P. Flynn, Ken Dean, Eric Pilger, Martin Wooster, Chris Okubo, Peter Mouginis-Mark, Harold Garbeil, Carl Thornber, Servando De la Cruz-Reyna, Dave Rothery, and Robert Wright 139
High-Spatial-Resolution Thermal Remote Sensing of Active Volcanic Features Using Landsat and Hyperspectral Data
      Luke R Flynn, Andrew J. L. Harris, David A. Rothery, and Clive Oppenheimer 161

Deformation and Topography
Remote Sensing of Volcano Surface and Internal Processes Using Radar Interferometry
      Howard A. Zebker, Falk Amelung, and Sjonni Jonsson 179
Remote Sensing of Volcano Deformation by Radar Interferometry from Various Satellites
      Didier Massonnet and Freysteinn Sigmundsson 207
Slopes of Oceanic Basalt Volcanoes
      Scott K. Rowland and Harold Garbeil 223
Using Airborne Laser Altimetry to Detect Topographic Change at Long Valley Caldera, California
      M. A. Hofton, J.-B. Minster, J. R. Ridgway N. R Williams, J. B. Blair, D. L Rabine, and J. L. Button  249

Appendices
List of Acronyms 265
Volcanoes Included in This Volume 267
Wavelength Regions for Volcano Studies 269

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