The ASTER Volcano Archive has been created by members of the ASTER Joint Science Team under a proposal to the NASA Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Program, as part of the ASTER Volcano Data Acquistion and Analysis System effort (AVA). All AVA Team members are also members of the ASTER Geology Working Group.

Principal Investigators:

• PI: Dave Pieri, JPL—Responsible for overall project management and analyses of thermal radiance, aerosol, and lava flow data. ASTER Science Team Member; MTI mission Co-I—responsible for analyses of MTI data. Responsible for implementing thermal algorithms.
• Co-I/Deputy PI: Michael Abrams, JPL—Responsible for geologic evaluations of eruption parameters (w/Pieri). ASTER Science Team Associate Leader.

Support Staff:

• Patrick Ko, JPL —Software engineer. Patrick is responsible for the creation of the system architecture and the GUI, as well as data ingestion. He is also responsible for implementation of the designated algorithms into the AVA system.
• Howard Tan, JPL—Scientist/systems analyst: Responsible for maintaining the AVA system and, along with Patrick, for adapting ArcIMS to the AVA concept. Howard developed and manages the JPL ASTER-GAVL system and designed, developed, and maintains the JPL ASTERWEB site. He will serve as the VDASS systems manager and will implement the web interface.

Science Team

• Co-I: Vince Realmuto, JPL—Responsible for SO2 algorithm and SO2 data analysis. Will create volcanic process simulations from time-series data. EOS Volcanology IDS Team Co-I. Director—JPL Digital Image Analysis Laboratory.
• Co-I: Mike Ramsey, University of Pittsburgh—ASTER Team Associate. Responsible for providing ArcIMS web-browser and assisting in conversion to AVA.
• Co-I: Ashley Davies, JPL—Research Scientist, JPL. Galileo NIMS Team Associate. Responsible for implementing two-band models for analyses of thermal emissions. Responsible for implementing thermal algorithms with PI.
• Co-I: Alan Gillespie, University of Washington, Seattle—Professor; ASTER Science Team Member. Responsible for temperature-emissivity separation issues. Responsible for supervising variable emissivity studies and implementation of the results into the AVA algorithm suite.
• Co-I: Tim Gubbels, Science Systems and Applications, Inc, Lanham, MD. Will be responsible for the development and management of external interfaces, including interfaces to the ASTER Team Lead Data System, EOSDIS, EOSDIS Data Pools, the LPDAAC, and the HOTSPOTS system. This will include the development of data and metadata transfer protocols. Tim's research will involve utilizing AVA products for volcano hazards investigations in Central America. Tim will also provide liaison with the MODIS team.

Collaborators

• Gary Hufford-NWS, Anchorage AK—Key contact for the provision of synoptic data for ingestion into AVA. Regional meteorologist for the National Weather Service, Alaska Region. Long time collaborator with PI. Co-taught mini-course “Aviation Hazards in the Boundary Layer” with Pieri, Fall 2002 at UAA.
• Peter Olsson, University of Alaska, Anchorage—Professor; collaborator on implementation of the RAMS model with Pieri for modeling aviation hazards in the boundary layer. Co-taught mini-course “Aviation Hazards in the Boundary Layer” with Pieri, Fall 2002 at UAA.
• Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy—Director of the Remote Sensing Group at INGV. Key collaborator with respect to access to Mt. Etna. Co-I on a parallel funded activity with Pieri to fly a UAV into the Etna plume. Long time collaborator with Pieri.
• Tomasso Caltabiano, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Catania (Sicily), Italy—Key collaborator with respect to field work on Mt. Etna, and on providing ancillary COSPEC measurements of the Etna plume. Long time collaborator with Pieri and Realmuto.
• Luke Flynn—University of Hawaii, HIGP. We will coordinate with Luke in the analysis of ASTER data for volcanoes that appear active in the synoptic data, as well as in retrospectively examining the correlations between synoptic and high-resolution data over the life of the ASTER mission.
• James Simpson, Scripps/UDSD—Long time colleague of PI in the area of airborne volcanic ash spectral signatures and detection. Will consult with Jim on fine tuning of ASTER ash detection algorithms.
• Graduate Students, University of Washington and University of Pittsburgh—Student staff utilized under the directorship of Co-Is Gillespie and Ramsey, with the cognizance of the PI.