First International Workshop on Acoustic Remote Sensing of Volcanoes

Held in Quito, Ecuador in conjuction with the Cities on Volcanoes 4 Conference

January 22, 2006

Introduction

The workshop presents volcano-acoustic remote sensing as a mature technology, with established measurement, analysis, and data dissemination procedures that can be incorporated into civil defense and aviation applications as well as into research programs. We present the basic physics of acoustic wave propagation in the atmosphere, summarize the state of the art in recording and data analysis techniques, and discuss applications using near- and far-field acoustic observations of diverse volcanic eruption styles. We also consider the interpretive tools needed to transform a raw acoustic data stream into useful products that may be used by civil defense authorities and the aviation industry.

Agenda/List of Particpants

Presentations

Introduction, Acoustics Overview -- Milton Garces, Hank Bass (11.1 MB)

Instrumentation, Arrays, Theory, and Signal Processing -- Milton Garces, Hank Bass, and David Fee (8.3 MB)

Infrasound Array Study of Mt. St. Helens -- Robin Matoza (5.9 MB)

Seismo-Acoustic Signals of Explosion Events at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador -- Mario Ruiz (1.9 MB)

ASHE - Acoustic Surveillance Acoustic Surveillance for Hazardous Eruptions for Hazardous Eruptions -- David McCormack (4.5 MB)

Poor Scaling Between Elastic Energy Release and Eruption Intensity for Small Eruptions -- Jeff Johnson (2.6 MB)

Monitoring of Indonesian volcanoes with infrasound: preliminary results -- J. Guilbert and others (presented by M. Garces) (4.6 MB)

Infrasound monitoring of volcanoes in Vanuatu -- A. Le Pichon (presented by M. Garces) (7.5 MB)

Multi-Technology observations of the Manam PNG Volcano Eruption, January 2005: Potential for an Enhanced Volcanic Ash Warning System -- D. Brown and others (presented by M. Garces) (857 KB)

Detection of Infrasound from the Eruiption of Manam Volcano on Jan. 27, 2005 -- P. Campus and others (presented by M. Garces) (4.9 MB)

Other COV4 Presentations

Bichromatic infrasonic tremor from compact sources at Puu Oo, Hawaii and Summary of the Workshop on Acoustic Remote Sensing of Volcanoes- M. Garces and others, presented during the Volcano Monitoring Symposium (3.1 MB)

Recent Progress on Acoustic Remote Sensing of Volcanoes - M. Garces representing the International Infrasound Consortium, presented at the Workshop on Volcanic Ash Hazards to Aviation in Latin America (3.8 MB ppt)