CEOS Disasters Working Group Space agencies organised in the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) formed a permanent Working Group in 2013. Together with volcanologists and Remote Sensing specialists, a Volcano Pilot activity was started with the following aims:
- Demonstrate the utility of integrated, systematic space-based EO as a volcano monitoring tool on a regional basis and for specific case studies
- Provide space-based EO products to the existing operational community (such as volcano observatories and VAACs) that can be used for better understanding volcanic activity and reducing impact and risk from eruptions
- Build the capacity for use of EO data at the majority of the world‘s volcanoes (particularly those that are not monitored by other means)
After further specification, the main objective of the pilot activity consists of a regional study of volcanic unrest and eruptions in the Latin American volcanic arc (from... read more