PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America

By William I Rose1, Jose Luis Palma2

1. Michigan Technological University 2. University at Buffalo, SUNY (UB)

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http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/PASI2011

The Open Vent Volcanoes PASI in Costa Rica gathered 60 scientists from 13 countries to build scientific networking in the transdisciplinary field of volcanology in January 2011. The accelerating application of field measurements and remote sensing to geological hazards is facilitated by collaborations in earth's most hazardous regions; Pacific Latin America is subject to frequent eruptions, landslides, earthquakes and hurricanes and is near the US science community, but is nonetheless sparsely investigated. We aim to stimulate this kind of international effort by gathering the critical US science and Pacific Latin American counterpart groups.

This proposal funded participants from the US and from the Americas, to attend a workshop hosted at the University of Costa Rica for two weeks of lectures, computer laboratory and field experiences aimed at Remote Sensing for Mitigation of Natural Hazards in Latin America. We expect to use the event to further develop human and social science aspects of hazards research which have begun to emerge. In addition to developing special publications and web outreach of workshop products, we expect this event to 1) increase the number of scientists working on hazards research in universities, government agencies and non-governmental organizations in both the US and the Americas, and 2) foster communication among these institutions, and 3) build stronger collaborative relationships as a result of this workshop.

While the planned workshop includes fundamental aspects of remote sensing and digital image processing, the topics are presented in the context of new developments for studying volcanic processes and hazards. Goals of the workshop included: 1) increasing awareness of available data and instruments for collecting data, 2) increasing proficiency in acquiring and processing data, 3) increasing awareness of the availability of tools for processing remotely sensed data, and 4) enabling more effective and comprehensive archiving and sharing of data. The workshop curricula were designed in a manner to best serve the participants, while understanding the broad range of participants' technical background and institutional support, as well as equipment and funding at their disposal.

Presentations

Monday, January 10: Volcanic ash sensing and volcanic threat assessment

Workshop welcome and intro to volcanic ashfall hazards and sensing by Bill Rose .pdf .mov

Recent developments in volcanic ash remote sensing by Fred Prata .pdf .mov (example) .mov (presentation)

Assessing the Volcanic Threat in Latin America by Jose Luis Palma .pdf

Hazard, Threat, Vulnerability and Risk by Hugo Delgado Granados .pdf

Volcanoes in Costa Rica by Guillermo Alvarado .pdf

Tuesday, January 11: OMI and other volcanic SO2 sensing techniques

OMI and other volcanic SO2 sensing: Introduction by Simon Carn .pdf

Ground-based SO2 measurement techniques: Theory by Jose Luis Palma .pdf

Techniques to measure SO2 volcanic plumes and geometrical consideration by Lizzette Rodriguez .pdf

Chemistry of SO2 in tropospheric volcanic plumes by Lizzette Rodriguez .pdf

Wednesday, January 12: InSAR Deformation Mapping and Modeling

Part I: basics of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging by Zhong Lu .pdf

Part II: interferometric SAR (InSAR) processing by Zhong Lu .pdf

Part III: InSAR deformation modeling by Zhong Lu .pdf

Part IV: InSAR application, SAR data availability, and InSAR processing software by Zhong Lu .pdf

Thursday, January 13: El papel de los volcanologos en el manejo de las crisis volcanicas (in Spanish)

La percepcion del riesgo y su definicion by Rudiger Escobar Wolf .pdf

Teoria sobre sistemas de alerta temprana by Rudiger Escobar Wolf .pdf

El problema del riesgo en el volcan Galeras by Milton Ordonez .pdf

El desarrollo de la crisis en el volcan Santa Ana, El Salvador, en el ano 2005 by Dolors Ferres .pdf

El volcan Tungurahua: 12 anos de actividad eruptiva by Jorge Bustillos .pdf

Los esfuerzos actuales para la reduccion del riesgo volcanico en Nicaragua by Martha Navarro .pdf

El cambio de paradigma hacia las estrategias participativas para la reduccion del riesgo volcanico by Luke Bowman .pdf

Friday, January 14: Seismo-acoustic data applications

Overview of volcano seismology by Diana Roman .pdf

Overview lecture on volcano infrasound, instrumentation fundamentals, and
recorded signals by Jeff Johnson .pdf

Multiparameter investigations at Fuego and Santiaguito volcanoes by John Lyons .pdf

Integration of seismo-acoustic data by Nick Varley .pdf

The origin of volcanotectonic (VT) earthquake swarms by Diana Roman .pdf

Telica volcano, Nicaragua: Preliminary results of the TESAND experiment by Mel Rodgers .pdf

Low frequency volcanic seismicity by Greg Waite .pdf

Application of techniques and interpretation of data: Arenal, Turrialba and Poas volcano by Mauricio Mora .pdf

Seismological aspects of Cerro Machin volcano by Milton Ordonez .pdf

Saturday, January 15: UV camera, DOAS and FTIR

UV digital imaging of volcanic plumes by Tricia Nadeau .pdf

UV Ground-based imaging camera: EnviCam by Fred Prata .pdf

Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy at active volcanoes by Simon Carn .pdf

Thursday, January 20: GPS systems and precise measurements of deformation

GPS and volcano monitoring by Charles DeMets .pdf

Differential GPS on Volcan Santa Ana, El Salvador by Charles DeMets .pdf

Monitoreo de Deformacion en volcanes activos en el Peru by Edu Taipe .pdf

Deformation at Machin Volcano by Milton Ordonez .pdf

GPS studies at Concepcion Volcano by Jose A Saballos .pdf

Friday, January 21: Applications of IR cameras in volcanic regions

IR camera techniques for measuring atmospheric gases and particles by Fred Prata .pdf

Monitoring Kilauea s summit and east rift zone eruptions with thermal cameras by Matt Patrick .pdf

Monitoring of effusive eruptions: Bezymianny, Sheveluch and Mt. St. Helens volcanoes by Mike Ramsey .pdf

Thermal imagery of passive volcanic activity by Nick Varley .pdf

Theory and application of multispectral thermal imaging camera by Fred Prata .pdf

Strombolian dynamics from thermal (FLIR) video imagery by Matt Patrick .pdf

Thermal monitoring at Volcan de Colima, Mexico by Nick Varley .pdf

Fumaroles and mud pots by Mike Ramsey .pdf

Thermal monitoring of volcanoes in Ecuador by Vallejo .pdf

Fixed thermal cameras at active volcanoes by Matt Patrick .pdf

Saturday, January 22: Satellite-based thermal IR anomalies

Thermal remote sensing of active volcanoes by Rob Wright .pdf

ASTER and its application to volcanic hazard assessment by Mike Ramsey .pdf

Thermal remote sensing of active volcanoes in an operational environment: approaches of Alaska (AVO) and Hawaii (HVO) by Matt Patrick .pdf

Sunday, January 23: Vhub.org and Modeling volcanic hazards

Vhub.org: Cyberinfrastructure for collaborative volcano research and risk mitigation by Jose L. Palma .pdf

Introduction to modeling volcanic hazards by Jose L. Palma .pdf

Methodology for hazards map construction by Hugo Delgado G. .pdf

Modeling lava flows by Einat Lev .pdf

Numerical modeling of pyroclastic flows: a case study from the recent activity of Merapi volcano, Central Java, Indonesia. by Sylvain Charbonnier .pdf




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  • William I Rose; Jose Luis Palma (2011), "PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America," https://theghub.org/resources/303.

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  1. Observing volcanic clouds

    29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): William I Rose

    This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: William I. Rose

  2. New Techniques and Technologies for Remote Sensing of Volcanic Ash and SO2 Gas

    29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma

    This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: Fred PrataFred Prata

  3. Assessing the Volcanic Threat in Latin America

    29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma

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  4. Hazard, Threat, Vulnerability and Risk

    29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Hugo Delgado-Granados

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  5. Volcanoes in Costa Rica

    29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma

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  6. Remote Sensing of Volcanic Gas Emissions

    29 Jun 2011 | Contributor(s): Simon Carn

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  7. Ground-based SO2 measurements

    29 Jun 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma

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