A straight forward procedure to extract the volcanic cloud top height as a Plume Elevation Model (PEM) from already Orthorectified Landsat 8 images. Application to the 26 October 2013 Mt Etna eruption (Italy) and cross comparison with Lagrangian trajectories, Modis and Iasi data.

Marcello de Michele (1) , Pasquale Sellitto (2) , Stefano Corradini (3) , Elisa Carboni (4) , Giuseppe Giovanni Salerno (3) , Daniel Raucoules (1)

1 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
2 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
3 Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
4 AOPP - Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford]

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]

Marcello de Michele, Pasquale Sellitto, Stefano Corradini, Elisa Carboni, Giuseppe Giovanni Salerno, et al.. A straight forward procedure to extract the volcanic cloud top height as a Plume Elevation Model (PEM) from already Orthorectified Landsat 8 images. Application to the 26 October 2013 Mt Etna eruption (Italy) and cross comparison with Lagrangian trajectories, Modis and Iasi data.. EGU - European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Apr 2018, Vienne, Austria. ⟨hal-01725763⟩