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Thermal Analysis of Volcanoes Based on 10 Years of ASTER Data on Mt. Etna

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Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing

Part of the book series: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing ((RDIP,volume 17))

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The EOS-1 Terra ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) has acquired about 200 images (100 of them sufficiently cloud-free to be used) over Mt. Etna since 1999. This chapter shows the results from the analysis of 10 years Mt Etna activity using thermal infrared (TIR) high spatial resolution data by a semi-automatic procedure that extracts radiance values of the summit area with the goal of detecting variation related to eruptive events. Night time data showed a good correlation with the main eruptive events that occurred both in the summit and in the flank areas. A comparison of the variance of maximum ASTER TIR radiance with variance of the maximum AVHRR TIR radiance (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) for the same area confirms good correlation in terms of trend and values between the two data sets. Finally this study emphasizes the importance of high spatial resolution TIR data during background monitoring to detect changes in the thermal emission that may be related to an impending eruption and the need to further improve the spatial resolution in the TIR channels to better separate the thermal active areas in volcanic systems.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank US and Japanese colleagues of the ASTER Joint Science Team, the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (USA) and the Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center (ERSDAC) in Tokyo (Japan) for cooperation in obtaining and analyzing the ASTER data used for this study, as well as the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) for its support of the ASTER mission. This work was carried out, in part, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology under contract to the Science Mission Directorate of NASA. Moreover the authors would like to thank Marco Neri and Boris Behncke working at INGV Mt. Etna Observatory who have provided the Mt. Etna eruption history and maps and Massimo Musacchio working at INGV in Rome for many helpful discussions.

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Buongiorno, M.F., Pieri, D., Silvestri, M. (2013). Thermal Analysis of Volcanoes Based on 10 Years of ASTER Data on Mt. Etna. In: Kuenzer, C., Dech, S. (eds) Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6639-6_20

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