Convenors

Thomas R. Walter (twalter@gfz-potsdam.de)   Email: twalter@gfz-potsdam.de Pietro Tizzani (tizzani.p@irea.cnr.it)   Email: tizzani.p@irea.cnr.it

Description

This session provides a platform to share experience, results and developments related to the use of satellite remote sensing techniques for volcano understanding and monitoring. We especially solicit contributions from the InSAR, GPS, Spectroscopy and Imaging community focusing on new scientific achievements and the operational use of Earth observation data. Presentations related to technological advancements and integration of space based, air based and ground based techniques are very welcome to this topical session. Highlights of this session will be related to  • volcano process observation by use of satellite data such as ENVISAT, ERS, TerraSAR-X, ALOS, COSMO-SkyMed, GOME, AVHRR among others, • time series generation, achievements and perspectives, • data interpretation, model simulation advancements and results, • remotely sensed hazard assessment and risk reduction, • Ash impact loss-damage functions for risk calculation. • cross-border and multi-hazard analysis. The topics may hence include a broad spectrum related to satellite remote sensing techniques, specifically current projects and perspectives, science advances, integration of independent data, model simulation and inversion, and data and information distribution policies as well as capacity building.