Monitoring of geological activity on astronomical sites of the Canary Islands, Hawaii, and Chile

Antonio Eff-Darwich; Begoña Garcia-Lorenzo; Jose A. Rodriguez-Losada; Luis E. Hernández-Gutiérrez; Julio de la Nuez; Maria C. Romero-Ruiz

doi:10.1117/12.834144

7 October 2009 Monitoring of geological activity on astronomical sites of the Canary Islands, Hawaii, and Chile

Antonio Eff-Darwich, Begoña Garcia-Lorenzo, Jose A. Rodriguez-Losada, Luis E. Hernández-Gutiérrez, Julio de la Nuez, Maria C. Romero-Ruiz

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Proceedings Volume 7478, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IX; 747821 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.834144
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2009, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

Future large and extremely large ground-based telescopes will demand stable geological settings.Remote sensing could be an unvaluable tool to analyse the impact of geological activity at selected astronomical sites, namely the observatories of El Teide (Tenerife, Canary Islands), Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma, Canary Islands), Mauna Kea (Hawaii) and Paranal (Chile) and the candidate site of Cerro Ventarrones (Chile). In this sense, the extent of lava flows, eruptive clouds or ground deformation associated to seismic and/or volcanic activity could be analysed and characterised through remote sensing.

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Antonio Eff-Darwich, Begoña Garcia-Lorenzo, Jose A. Rodriguez-Losada, Luis E. Hernández-Gutiérrez, Julio de la Nuez, and Maria C. Romero-Ruiz "Monitoring of geological activity on astronomical sites of the Canary Islands, Hawaii, and Chile", Proc. SPIE 7478, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology IX, 747821 (7 October 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.834144

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