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Attendees
- UNICT : Giovanni Muscato, Salvatore Guccione, Giacomo Spampinato.
- INGV : Mauro Coltelli.
Outline
This technical visit was performed during the December 2002-January 2003 eruption to test the capabilities of the radar doppler to perform measurement of gas speed and of lava flow speed.
The site was reached by using an Helicopter of the Italian Civil Protection. A portable test system was designed to perform such measurements.
Fig. 1. Block diagram of the test system designed
However both the measurement were unsuccessful. The radar doppler had not the required power to be able to measure gas jet speed, while the minimum measurable speed of 1mph was too high to allow the measurement of lava flow speed.
Further investigation will be performed to find a different sensor more suitable for this kind of measurements.
