ESA - Eduspace EN - Natural Disasters - Exercise 1: Exploring the volcano

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Exercise 1: Exploring the volcano

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This is a MODIS image from 24 July 2001. The area within the rectangle corresponds to a size of approximately 707 x 772 km on Earth, and it covers an area of a bit more than half a million km². This part of the image is used in this exercise.

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Etna

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Monitoring of volcanic hot spots and plumes

Worksheet introduction Exercise 2: Hot spot and plume detection Exercise 3: Monitoring a plume - animation

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