Paper Info
Title
The July/August 2019 Lava Flows at the Sciara del Fuoco, Stromboli-Analysis from Multi-Sensor Infrared Satellite Imagery.
Abstract
On 3 July 2019 a rapid sequence of paroxysmal explosions at the summit craters of Stromboli (Aeolian-Islands, Italy) occurred, followed by a period of intense Strombolian and effusive activity in July, and continuing until the end of August 2019. We present a joint analysis of multi-sensor infrared satellite imagery to investigate this eruption episode. Data from the Spinning-Enhanced-Visible-and-Infra Red-Imager (SEVIRI) was used in combination with those from the Multispectral-Instrument (MSI), the Operational-Land-Imager (OLI), the Advanced-Very High-Resolution-Radiometer (AVHRR), and the Visible-Infrared-Imaging-Radiometer-Suite (VIIRS). The analysis of infrared SEVIRI-data allowed us to detect eruption onset and to investigate short-term variations of thermal volcanic activity, providing information in agreement with that inferred by nighttime-AVHRR-observations. By using Sentinel-2-MSI and Landsat-8-OLI imagery, we better localized the active lava-flows. The latter were quantitatively characterized using infrared VIIRS-data, estimating an erupted lava volume of 6.33 x 10(6) +/- 3.17 x 10(6) m(3) and a mean output rate of 1.26 +/- 0.63 m(3)/s for the July/August 2019 eruption period. The estimated mean-output-rate was higher than the ones in the 2002-2003 and 2014 Stromboli effusive eruptions, but was lower than in the 2007-eruption. These results confirmed that a multi-sensor-approach might provide a relevant contribution to investigate, monitor and characterize thermal volcanic activity in high-risk areas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11232879
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Stromboli,infrared satellite imagery,time-averaged discharge rate (TADR),lava flow volume estimation
Journal
11
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
23
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Plank1113.16
Francesco Marchese2199.75
Carolina Filizzola3147.62
Nicola Pergola42414.78
Marco Neri582.77
Michael Nolde600.34
Sandro Martinis78612.98