HR: 1340h
AN: V33C-1469    [Abstracts]
TI: Streamlining Spacecraft Observation Response to Volcanic Activity Detection Using An Autonomous Sensor Web of Ground and Space-Based Assets.
AU: Chien, S
EM: Steve.Chien@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: * Davies, A G
EM: Ashley.Davies@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Wright, R
AF: University of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
AU: Miklius, A
AF: USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, P.O. Box 51, HVNP, Volcano, HI 96718 United States
AU: Flynn, L
AF: University of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
AU: Cichy, B
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Frye, S
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Soil Conservation Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AU: Shulman, S
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Soil Conservation Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AU: Mandl, D
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Soil Conservation Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AU: Grosvenor, S
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Soil Conservation Road, Greenbelt, MD 20770 United States
AB: Streamlining the process by which data of active volcanism are obtained and processed is a desirable goal of volcano monitoring and hazard assessment programs. The JPL Volcano Sensor Web is an application of networked sensor technology that is being applied to volcano monitoring. The Sensor Web team has utilized the University of Hawaii automated system for processing data of volcanic thermal emission obtained by GOES (in geostationary orbits) and MODIS (on the Terra and Aqua spacecraft). This yields alerts on timescales of 15 minutes for GOES and less than 24 hours for MODIS data. Additionally, the Volcano Sensor Web utilizes the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory tiltmeter network (which covers Kilauea and Mauna Loa) which autonomously generates alerts when pre-set thresholds of inflation/deflation, likely to result in effusive activity, are exceeded. On notification, JPL automatically generates a spacecraft command sequence that is then transmitted to Goddard Space Flight Center for uplink to the Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) spacecraft. This enables rapid acquisition of high-spatial resolution hyperspectral (Hyperion) and multispectral (ALI) observations to be obtained of the target volcano as quickly as possible. Extending the use of autonomy, Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment [1] software onboard EO-1 can then process the data and rapidly report the results (e.g., number and location of thermally active pixels). Ref. [1] Chien, S. et al. "The Earth Observing One Autonomous Science Agent", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, New York, New York, July 2004. Part of this work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract to NASA. The tiltmeter AlarmManager software was written by Chris Callendar.
DE: 8419 Eruption monitoring (7280)
DE: 8450 Planetary volcanism (5480)
DE: 8494 Instruments and techniques
DE: 5480 Volcanism (8450)
DE: 6061 Remote sensing
SC: Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology [V]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting