Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions Using Satellite Data in the North Pacific Region

Clive Horwood ¹, Ken G Dean ², Jonathan Dehn ², John E Bailey <sup>3

1</sup>Praxis Publishing Ltd, The White House, Church Lane, Eastergate, Chichester, West Sussex PO20 3UR, United Kingdom
²Alaska Volcano Observatory, Geophysical Institute, 903 Koyukuk Drive,  Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States
³Arctic Region Supercomputing Center , 909 Koyukuk Drive, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States

A book entitled, “Volcanic Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions Using Satellite Data in the North Pacific Region”, will be published next year by Springer/Praxis Press. The book will discuss how satellite data are used to monitor volcanoes and provide a consolidated but informative review of types and styles of eruptions and landforms as seen from space. Data from GOES, AVHRR, MODIS, Landsat, ASTER, and various SAR systems will be included. The book will consist of two parts. The first part will describe the state of the art of real-time volcano monitoring from space. The second part will be an atlas of images showing eruptions and volcanoes with a description of the activity or features observed. The atlas will include images from volcanoes around the world but will concentrate on the North Pacific (NOPAC) Region due to the variety of eruptive activity, frequency of eruptions, and the volume of data collected by the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO). A DVD with images and animations to show the dynamics of eruptions will be included with the book, and a web site will provide updated images of eruptions. Google Earth, as the most pervasive virtual globe software, can also be used to browse the atlas, giving a global spatial context to the data. A downloadable “KMZ” file will be shown that displays the atlas entries, organized by sensor, eruptive activity (thermal anomalies, plumes) and now through the use of this software, geographic location.