Revealing the Morphological Evolution of Krakatau Volcano by Integrating SAR and Optical Remote Sensing Images

On 22 December 2018, volcano Anak Krakatau, located in Indonesia, erupted and experienced a major lateral collapse. The triggered tsunami killed at least 437 people by the 13-m-high tide. Traditional optical imagery plays a great role in monitoring volcanic activities, but it is susceptible to cloud...

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Published in:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2022-03, Vol.14 (6), p.1399
Main Authors: Xiang, Jianming, Guo, Shaohua, Shi, Xianlin, Yu, Daijun, Wei, Guan, Wen, Ningling, Chen, Chen, Dai, Keren
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerial photography
Algorithms
Anak Krakatau volcano
Evolution
Fog
High tide
Image enhancement
Morphology
multi-polarization
Radar imaging
Remote sensing
Satellites
Synthetic aperture radar
synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Temporal resolution
the Nobuyuki Otsu (OTSU) method
Tsunamis
Volcanic activity
Volcanoes
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Summary:On 22 December 2018, volcano Anak Krakatau, located in Indonesia, erupted and experienced a major lateral collapse. The triggered tsunami killed at least 437 people by the 13-m-high tide. Traditional optical imagery plays a great role in monitoring volcanic activities, but it is susceptible to cloud and fog interference and has low temporal resolution. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery can monitor volcanic activities at a high temporal resolution, and it is immune to the influence of clouds. In this paper, we propose an automatic method to accurately extract the volcano boundary from SAR images by combining multi-polarized water enhancement and the Nobuyuki Otsu (OTSU) method. We extract the area change of the volcano in 2018–2019 from Sentinel-1 images and ALOS-2 imagesThe area change and evolution are verified and analyzed by combing the results from SAR and optical data. The results show that the southeastern part of the volcano expanded significantly after the eruption, and the western part experienced collapse and recovery. The volcano morphology change experienced a slow-fast-slow process in the two years.
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs14061399