PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America; San Jose, Costa Rica; January/February, 2011

这项泛美高等研究院奖由美国国家科学基金会和能源部共同支持，将于2011年1月/2月在哥斯达黎加圣何塞的哥斯达黎加与哥斯达黎加大学地质系的Mauricio莫拉费尔南德斯博士合作举行。 由威廉博士组织。该项目将重点研究遥感技术在火山监测和预报中的应用。 中美洲的地震活动为遥感监测工具提供了一个独特的机会，因为许多火山是持续活跃的开放管道系统。 像这样的低能量火山可能会被灾难性的爆炸事件打断，使哥斯达黎加成为本PASI的理想案例研究。 培训班将包括讲座、实地实践和计算机活动以及讨论会，内容涉及遥感和数字图像处理的基本方面。 参与者将包括来自美国的15名学生，博士后和初级教师以及来自美洲其他地区的15名。 中美洲遥感倡议将提供一个机会，与其他组织合作并在其不断努力的基础上提高中美洲的遥感能力。该项目将促进国际合作，进一步探索与火山活动有关的地质灾害遥感方面的新发展。 它还将为从事中美洲减灾工作的各组织，包括美国航天局、SERVIR、美国地质勘探局和VDAP之间的知识交流提供场所。 该项目的预期成果包括：1）提高对现有数据和数据收集工具的认识; 2）提高获取和处理数据的熟练程度; 3）提高对处理遥感数据工具的认识; 4）更有效和更全面地存档和共享数据。 PASI的结果将通过一个网站进行传播，该网站提供课程信息和最新情况、一份公开报告以及地球科学或遥感杂志的特刊。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place during January/February 2011 at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), San Jose, Costa Rica in collaboration with Dr. Mauricio Mora Fernandez of the Geology Department of UCR. Organized by Dr. William I. Rose of Michigan Technological University, the PASI will focus on the application of remote sensing to volcano monitoring and forecasting. Seismic activity in Central America provides a unique opportunity for remotely sensed monitoring tools because many of the volcanoes are persistently active, open-conduit systems. Low energy volcanoes such as these can be punctuated by catastrophic explosive events, making Costa Rica an ideal case study for this PASI. The course will consist of lectures, hands-on field and computer activities, and discussion sessions covering fundamental aspects of remote sensing and digital image processing. Participants will include 15 students, post docs and junior faculty members from the U.S. and 15 from the rest of the Americas. The PASI will provide an opportunity to collaborate with, and build on continuing efforts of other organizations to improve Mesoamerica's remote sensing capabilities. This PASI will foster international collaboration to further explore new developments in remote sensing of geological hazards associated with volcanic activity. It will also provide a venue for knowledge exchange among the various organizations working in Central American hazard mitigation including NASA, SERVIR, USGS, and VDAP. Expected outcomes of this PASI include: 1) increased awareness of available data and instruments for collecting data; 2) increased proficiency in acquiring and processing data; 3) increased awareness of the availability of tools for processing remotely sensed data; and, 4) more effective and comprehensive archiving and sharing of data. PASI results will be disseminated through a website with course information and updates, a publicly available report, and a special issue in a geosciences or remote sensing journal.