New drone technology advances volcanic monitoring

New drone technology advances volcanic monitoring:

The team, involving 20 researchers from seven countries, used long-range drones kitted out with a range of lightweight sensors to study the Manam volcano - one of the most active volcanoes in Papua New Guinea.

E.J. Liu et al. ‘Aerial strategies advance volcanic gas measurements at inaccessible, strongly degassing volcanoes.’ Science Advances (2020). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb9103.

Specially-adapted drones, developed by an international team involving scientists from the University of Cambridge, are transforming how we forecast eruptions by allowing close-range measurements of previously inaccessible and hazardous volcanoes

These aerial measurements are pushing the frontiers of the current state-of-the-art in volcano monitoring

Emma Liu

Emma Liu

View from Baliau village, Manam

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