Petrophysical features of lava flows from Bezymyannyi Volcano, Kamchatka

Kliuchevskoi Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula

Analysis of Active Lava Flows on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, Using SIR-C Radar Correlation Measurements

Precise eruption rates of active pahoehoe lava flows on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, have been determined using spaceborne radar data acquired by the Space Shuttle Imaging Radar-C (SIR-C) . A coastal site downslope from the Pu'u O'o vent was imaged once per day, on each of the four days from October 7-10, 1994. Day-to-day decorrelation due to resurfacing was determined by interferometric combinatio...

Pulsatory andesite lava flow at Bagana Volcano

[1] Using a time series of TerraSAR-X spaceborne radar images we have measured the pulsatory motion of an andesite lava flow over a 14-month period at Bagana Volcano, Papua New Guinea. Between October 2010 and December 2011, lava flowed continuously down the western flank of the volcano forming a 3 km-long blocky lava flow with a channel, levees, overflows and branches. We captured four success...

Barriers to Protect Hilo from Lava Flows'

THE CITY OF HILa, on the island of Hawaii, lies on the flank of one of the world 's most active volcanoes, Mauna Loa. For more than a century the danger of destruction of the city by lava flows has been recognized. Old documents recount the apprehension with which Hilo residents watched the advance of the lava flows of 1852 and 1855. In 1881 concern was even greater, as the flow front crawled w...

Animating Lava Flows

Animating lava flowing down the slopes of a volcano brings several challenges: modeling the mechanical features of lava and how they evolve over time depending on temperature; computing, in a reasonable time, the interactions inside the flow, and between the flow and a complex terrain data-base; and lastly, rendering the visual aspect of the flow. The methods described rely on smoothed particle...