Realtime volcano monitoring from Space : application to east Asian volcanoes
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15310125
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Natural disaster science
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
KANEKO Takayuki The University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Research Associate, 地震研究所, 助手 (90221887)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YASUDA Atsushi The University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Associate Professor, 地震研究所, 助教授 (70222354)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥7,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
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| Keywords | volcanoes / Web / remote sensing / realtime monitoring / Internet / east Asia / hazard mitigation / infrared |
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| Research Abstract |
We have developed near real-time hot spot monitoring system for 100 active volcanoes in east Asia, including northern Philippines, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka peninsula, western Indonesia and the Japanese Islands. The system uses daily nighttime infrared imagery from the MODIS and AVHRR onboard the Terra/Aqua satellites and NOAA series of polar orbiting satellites, respectively. The results and analyses of the MODIS and AVHRR observations, essentially thermal images and time-series radiance trends of each volcano targeted, are automatically uploaded on the Web. Currently this occurs within some hours of the satellite overpass, though this could be quickened in future. In this way it is planned that volcanologists and other interested parties might use the MODIS and AVHRR data as a broad check on the surface thermal state of the volcanoes they are studying and may apply their own interpretations to any identified heating or cooling trend. The web site for the prototype MODIS based system is accessible at the URL : http://vrsserv.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/REALVOLC/MODIS.
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