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Monitoring Volcanoes in the North Pacific

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The North Pacific region is remote and vast (5,000 by 2,000 km), and includes several hundred volcanoes in Kamchatka, the Kurile Islands, Alaska, and the northwestern U.S.A. (Figure 9.1).

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Dean, K.G. et al. (2015). An overview of satellite monitoring of volcanoes. In: Monitoring Volcanoes in the North Pacific. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68750-4_9

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