Title
Monitoring of the 2015 Villarrica Volcano Eruption by Means of DLR's Experimental TET-1 Satellite.
Abstract
Villarrica Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the South Andes Volcanic Zone. This article presents the results of a monitoring of the time before and after the 3 March 2015 eruption by analyzing nine satellite images acquired by the Technology Experiment Carrier-1 (TET-1), a small experimental German Aerospace Center (DLR) satellite. An atmospheric correction of the TET-1 data is presented, based on the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Emissivity Database (GDEM) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) water vapor data with the shortest temporal baseline to the TET-1 acquisitions. Next, the temperature, area coverage, and radiant power of the detected thermal hotspots were derived at subpixel level and compared with observations derived from MODIS and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data. Thermal anomalies were detected nine days before the eruption. After the decrease of the radiant power following the 3 March 2015 eruption, a stronger increase of the radiant power was observed on 25 April 2015. In addition, we show that the eruption-related ash coverage of the glacier at Villarrica Volcano could clearly be detected in TET-1 imagery. Landsat-8 imagery was analyzed for comparison. The information extracted from the TET-1 thermal data is thought be used in future to support and complement ground-based observations of active volcanoes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/rs10091379
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
volcanic thermal anomalies,change detection,Villarrica Volcano,small satellites,FireBIRD,TET-1
Atmospheric correction,Aster (genus),Moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer,Satellite,Volcano,Remote sensing,Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer,Geology,Emissivity,Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
9
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Plank1113.16
Michael Nolde200.34
Rudolf Richter310714.85
Christian Fischer421.83
Sandro Martinis58612.98
Torsten Riedlinger600.34
Elisabeth Schoepfer7185.99
Klein, D.801.69