The recent publication on satellite and ground-based observations of volcanic plumes produced during the Etna activity between 24 and 30 December 2018, was carried out in the frame of the e-shape project.

On the morning of 24 December 2018, an eruptive event occurred at Etna, which was followed the next day by a strong sequence of shallow earthquakes. The eruptive episode lasted until 30 December, ranging from moderate strombolian to lava fountain activity coupled with vigorous ash/gas emissions and a lava flow effusion toward the eastern volcano flank of Valle del Bove. In this work, the data collected from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) instruments on board the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) geostationary satellite are used to characterize the Etna activity by estimating the proximal and distal eruption parameters in near real time.

Corradini S., Guerrieri L, Stelitano D., Salerno G., Scollo S., Merucci L, Prestifilippo M., Musacchio M., Silvestri M., Lombardo V. and Caltabiano T.
Remote Sensing, 2020, 12, 1336 (pdf)

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