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From: Continuous monitoring of Hawaiian volcanoes with thermal cameras

Figure 1

Location of thermal cameras on Kīlauea and Mauna Loa. a) Map of Hawai‘i Island. Thermal cameras are deployed at the summit of Mauna Loa, the summit of Kīlauea and at the current vent area (Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō) along Kīlauea’s east rift zone. b) Moku‘āweoweo caldera at the summit of Mauna Loa. The thermal camera is deployed along the north rim, pointed towards the center of the caldera and covering the majority of the caldera floor with its 75° wide field of view. c) An active lava lake resides within the Overlook crater, within Halema‘uma‘u Crater in Kīlauea’s summit caldera. A thermal camera covers the majority of the Overlook crater in its field of view. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) and the UWE tiltmeter are 1.9-2.0 km from the lava lake. d) Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, the current vent area for the ongoing eruption on Kīlauea’s east rift zone, has had three thermal cameras. One views the eastern half of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater, while the others have broad views east and west to monitor for nearby changes on the rift zone. POC is a tiltmeter on the north flank of the cone, while JCUZ is a GPS receiver south of the crater. The PUOC GPS receiver is not shown, but is very close to the location of the WTcam, on the north flank.

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