Thermal Imaging of Nissyros Volcano (Aegean Sea)
using ASTER data:
Estimation of radiative Heat Flux.
Athanassios Ganas &*,
Evangelos Lagios †, G. Petropoulos ‡▼, Basil Psiloglou #
& Geodynamics Institute, National Observatory of Athens, P.O. Box 20048, Athens 118
10, Greece.
† Space Applications Unit in Geosciences, Dept. of Geophysics & Geothermics,
University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis – Ilissia, Athens 157 84, Greece.
‡ Department of Geography, King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS,
London, UK.
# Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, National
Observatory of Athens, I. Metaxa & Vas. Pavlou Str., 152 36 Athens, Greece.
▼Now at: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial
Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK.
*corresponding author: aganas@gein.noa.gr
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Thermal Imaging of Nissyros Volcano (Aegean Sea)
using ASTER data:
Estimation of radiative Heat Flux.
Aims and Objectives
the present study investigates the use of information from multispectral infrared
sensors orbiting from space, like ASTER, as a very promising method for the
estimation of geophysical variables that are related to the monitoring of
hydrothermal volcanic activity.
Radiative heat flux is of key interest as this consists often an important indicator
of the complex processes underlying the event of a possible eruptive condition.
The present study comprises the first comprehensive attempt to invert for this
important feature using ASTER satellite data in Nissyros volcano, one of the
many hydrothermally active volcanoes in the Mediterranean.
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Setting of Nissyros volcano in the south-east Aegean Sea. Inset box
shows the location of the Quaternary volcanoes of the Aegean Arc and
ages of volcanism. Image from the GEOWARN web site:
http://www.geowarn.ethz.ch.
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Geophysical
instrumentation on
Nissyros volcano in
the south-east Aegean
Sea.
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Geological Map
of Nissyros.
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Air-photograph of Nissyros volcano in the south-east Aegean Sea.
View to the West-southwest.
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Field photograph of the Nissyros caldera (20 May 2002). View to the South. The
crater areas are shown together with normal faults that dip towards the interior
of the caldera.
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EO Data
Four (4) cloud-free night-time ASTER images acquired over the area
of interest on:
7 April 2001,
13 June 2002,
26 October 2002 and
23 July 2005.
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ASTER Data Processing
a height-independent, corrected temperature (θ) was calculated for each pixel in
order to remove surface temperature variations caused by cooler air temperatures
at higher altitudes
  T  ha
where T is the ASTER derived surface Temperature (product AST08), h is surface altitude
and α is the adiabatic gradient (0.006C m-1).
Qrel  {4.614 [0.52  0.065(e) ]
0.5
Heat Flux (Qrel) is a function of surface emissivity, temperature and water vapour.
e is vapour pressure (mbar) and Δθ is the difference in C between maximum θ within the
thermal anomaly (crater) and minimum θ from all pixels near to the anomaly (Gaonac’h et al.,
1994).
Spectral emissivity was determined from AST05 product.
Water vapour from the Heraklion Airport midnight radiosonde launches.
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Temperature map of the Nissyros volcano.
Increasing brightness indicates warmer surface temperatures. The map
shows theta values for 13 June 2002 (left) and 26 October 2002 (right).
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Temperature map of the crater region inside the Nissyros caldera on 13 June
2002 (left) and 26 October 2002 (right).
Thin white lines are elevation contours (interval 20 m).
Red lines on the left image indicate normal faults
Red polygons on the right image indicate extent of thermal anomalies used to
calculate total flux in the Nissyros caldera.
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Diagram of radiative heat flux (Qrel) measurement from ASTER data
for Nissyros volcano over the period 2001-2005.
Date format on axis X is DD/MM/YY
35.00
Qrel (Wm -2)
30.00
25.00
20.00
15.00
10.00
1/10/00
19/4/01
5/11/01
24/5/02 10/12/02
28/6/03
14/1/04
1/8/04
17/2/05
5/9/05
24/3/06
Time
Stefanos
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Diagrams showing non-linear vs linear dependence of radiative heat
flux (Qrel) on vapour pressure (a) and spectral emissivity (b).
Qrel estimates refer to the October 2002 ASTER image.
1.000
0.990
80
0.980
emissivity
vapor pressure (mbar)
100
60
40
0.970
0.960
0.950
0.940
0.930
20
0.920
0
0.910
0
10
a
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30
Qrel (Wm -2)
40
50
29.5
b
30.0
30.5
31.0
31.5
32.0
32.5
33.0
Qrel (Wm -2)
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UTM grid showing the location of hot pixels for all four ASTER
images. All hot spots are grouped in three areas except for the outlier in
the Polyvotis region (13-6-2002). Double line with dots indicates
location of fissure. Pixel size is 100 m
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Conclusions
a) Image analysis of ASTER night-time scenes of Nissyros volcano
suggests an almost steady state of heat flux over the period 2001-2005.
b) An average value of 36 MW (± 6 MW) of radiative heat flux is
obtained inside the caldera at the time of ASTER overpass. This value
is the “background” reference heat-flux for this volcano.
c) Heat-flux estimates are highly sensitive to water vapour pressure, so
radiosonde data from launches closer to this volcano would provide
more accurate results.
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Nissyros EO Publications
GANAS, A. and LAGIOS, E., 2003, LANDSAT7 thermal imaging of the Nissyros Volcano. International
Journal of Remote Sensing, 24, 1579-1586.
GANAS, A., VASSILOPOULOU, S., LAGIOS, E., and SAKKAS, V., 2003, Thermal Imaging of Nissyros
Volcano (Aegean Sea) using ASTER data. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 35, 108-117.
LAGIOS, E, VASSILOPOULOU, S, SAKKAS, V, DIETRICH, V, DAMIATA, BN and GANAS, A, 2007, Testing
satellite and ground thermal imaging of low-temperature fumarolic fields: The dormant Nissyros Volcano
(Greece). ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 62 (6), 447-460.
SACHPAZI, M., KONTOES, CH, VOULGARIS, N, LAIGLE, M, VOUGIOUKALAKIS, G, SYKIOTI, O,
STAVRAKAKIS, G, BASKOUTAS, J, KALOGERAS, J, and LEPINE, JCL, 2002, Seismological and SAR
signature of unrest at Nissyros caldera, Greece, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 116 (12), 19-33.
SYKIOTI, O., KONTOES, CC., ELIAS, P., BRIOLE, P., SACHPAZI, M., PARADISSIS, D., and KOTSIS, I.,
2003, Ground deformation at Nisyros volcano (Greece) detected by ERS-2 SAR differential interferometry,
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(1), 183-188.
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