For current AVHRR thermal images of
Mount Etna go to:
http://goes.higp.hawaii.edu/goes/etna/index.shtml

AVHRR thermal images of Mount Etna:
South Flank Eruption 2001

With acknowledgments to the NERC Remote Sensing Data Analysis Service
(Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom)
for initial data preprocessing and access.

Data displayed on this site have been obtained by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer flown on a polar orbiting NOAA satellite series. For Etna, these data have been acquired and calibrated at the NERC Remote Sensing Data Analysis Service (RSDAS), before being converted to a lava flow hot spot location map at the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP). Displayed here are thermal images fitted to a wire-frame map of Etna, allowing the coarse location of lava flow related hot spots to be assessed. In each image lighter tones relate to higher temperatures, so that areas of lava flow appear very bright.  In some cases cold, dark plumes can be observed extending away from the eruption site. Currently this site is being up-dated on a daily basis, with the most current data being less than 24 hours old. Unfortunately if the eruption site is covered by cloud or ash plumes, then we cannot see the hot spot from space. In this case, no map will be posted.

2001 ERUPTION IMAGE ARCHIVE:
Hot spot maps produced for the dates:
July 01 - July 18, 2001   July 17 - July 31, 2001        August 1 - August 15, 2001      August 16 - August 31, 2001

FINAL STATUS OF 2001 PROCESSING:
Today's early morning image:
PAGE LAST UPDATED:    08/27/01  14:52 am (HST)
NOAA:            16
Date:                August 27, 2001
Time (GMT):    01:51
Comments:
Image Posted?  Yes

FINAL CLOUD-FREE NIGHT TIME IMAGE