Installation of a Doppler Radar Monitoring System at Merapi Volcano, Indonesia

• Published in: IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 251 - 271
• Main Authors: Voge, M., Hort, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.01.2009; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Applied geophysics; Ash; Ashes; Block and ash flows; Charge coupled devices; Clouds; Crystalline rocks; Domes; Doppler radar; Dynamical systems; Dynamics; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; GSM; Igneous and metamorphic rocks petrology, volcanic processes, magmas; Internal geophysics; lava dome; Merapi Volcano; Monitoring; Prototypes; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Radar systems; rockfalls; Stability; Volcanoes; Java; Merapi; Far East; Asia; Indonesia; Block and ash flows; Doppler radar; lava dome; monitoring; rockfalls; Merapi Volcano; detection; domes; boulders; clouds; volcanic risk; expansion; lava; ash flows; instruments; observatories; correlation; positioning; instability; radar methods

Merapi Volcano, Indonesia, is one of the most active dome building volcanoes worldwide. Instabilities at the growing dome cause rockfalls and hot block and ash flows, which can reach run-out distances of several kilometers. Therefore, Merapi has been monitored extensively for many years. However, di...