PRE-OPERATIVE TEST-CASE OF EURORISK-PREVIEW PROJECT DURING THE 2006 MT. ETNA ERUPTION

摘要

Mt. Etna volcano in Sicily (Italy) starts to erupt in July 2006. In order to monitoring this eruption we take the opportunity to perform a pre-operative test of the Eurorisk-Preview (Prevention, Information and Early Warning) project funded by the European Community. The test was aimed to measure the ground deformations related to the eruption using ENVISAT and ERS data available at this time following the Category 1 procedure. Beside the geophysical objectives, the test was also important to check the efficiency of all the procedures aimed to retrieve data from the volcanological observatories in charge of the eruption monitoring. The pre-operative test has been peculiar to understand and quantify the delivering time of the final satellite products expected in operative cases. The DInSAR data processing was performed in order to measure ground deformation related to the eruption, hypothesis in this sense are discussed supported by the GPS network ground data.