DEEPVOLC

DEEPVOLC

Project Title: DEEPVOLC

Start Date: 01 June 2020

End Date: 31 January 2026

Project summary:

DEEPVOLC will advance volcanic activity forecasts by applying artificial intelligence to new geodetic datasets. Accurate forecasting of volcanic eruptions is problematic, despite 200 million people living within 30 km of a volcano. Problems arise from: human interpretations of individual events, unpredictable volcanic activity, and a lack of scientifically measured volcanoes.

Small changes at a volcano’s surface are key indicators of potential volcanic activity. As surface movements of volcanoes as small as a few millimetres can now be measured from space – using satellite-borne radar from European satellite mission, Sentinel-1 – potential volcanic activity can be spotted earlier.

DEEPVOLC will combine knowledge from all volcanoes that have been active in the era of satellite deformation observations.

Objectives:

  • Apply recently developed deep learning approaches to satellite data
  • DEEPVOLC aims to apply artificial intelligence, and to use worldwide data, by exploiting advances in satellite monitoring.
  • Exploration of an entirely new approach to forecasting volcanic activity
  • To deliver a system for volcano observatories using knowledge of how volcanoes behave globally, to then automatically identify deformation locally, and forecast how the deformation will evolve, indicating the probability of eruption.

COMET investigators:

Partners: University of Bristol, University of Leeds

Funder(s): European Commission

For more information: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/866085/results

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