First recorded eruption of Mount Belinda volcano (Montagu Island)

Abstract The MODVOLC satellite monitoring system has revealed the first recorded eruption of Mount Belinda volcano, on Montagu Island in the remote South Sand-wich Islands. Here we present some initial qualitative observations gleaned from a collection of satellite im-agery covering the eruption, in...

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Main Authors: Andrew J. L. Harris, Robert Wright, Ken Dean, Pavel Izbekov, Harold Garbeil, Eric Pilger, South Sandwich Islands
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2001
Subjects:
Montagu
Montagu Island
Mount Belinda
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.694.3805
http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/%7Ewright/bv67.pdf
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Summary:Abstract The MODVOLC satellite monitoring system has revealed the first recorded eruption of Mount Belinda volcano, on Montagu Island in the remote South Sand-wich Islands. Here we present some initial qualitative observations gleaned from a collection of satellite im-agery covering the eruption, including MODIS, Landsat 7 ETM+, ASTER, and RADARSAT-1 data. MODVOLC thermal alerts indicate that the eruption started sometime

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