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EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 87, NO. 1, doi:10.1029/2006EO010002, 2006

Sensor Web Enables Rapid Response to Volcanic Activity

Ashley Gerard Davies

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA


Steve Chien

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA


Robert Wright

Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA


Asta Miklius

U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii, USA


Philip R. Kyle

Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, USA


Matt Welsh

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA


Jeffrey B. Johnson

University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA


Daniel Tran

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA


Steven R. Schaffer

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA


Robert Sherwood

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA


Abstract

Rapid response to the onset of volcanic activity allows for the early assessment of hazard and risk [Tilling, 1989]. Data from remote volcanoes and volcanoes in countries with poor communication infrastructure can only be obtained via remote sensing [Harris et al., 2000]. By linking notifications of activity from ground-based and space-based systems, these volcanoes can be monitored when they erupt. Over the last 18 months, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has implemented a Volcano Sensor Web (VSW) in which data from ground-based and space-based sensors that detect current volcanic activity are used to automatically trigger the NASA Earth Observing 1 (EO-1( spacecraft to make high-spatial-resolution observations of these volcanoes.

Published 3 January 2006.

Index Terms: 8485 Volcanology: Remote sensing of volcanoes; 8419 Volcanology: Volcano monitoring (7280); 8488 Volcanology: Volcanic hazards and risks.

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Citation: Davies, A. G., S. Chien, R. Wright, A. Miklius, P. R. Kyle, M. Welsh, J. B. Johnson, D. Tran, S. R. Schaffer, and R. Sherwood (2006), Sensor Web Enables Rapid Response to Volcanic Activity, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(1), doi:10.1029/2006EO010002.