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Table 1 Characteristics of Pléiades acquisitions (all in stereo mode) with good visibility (limited cloud cover) over the eruption site and used to estimate the volume of the lava field between days 3 and 13 after the eruption started

From: CNES-ESA satellite contribution to the operational monitoring of volcanic activity: The 2021 Icelandic eruption of Mt. Fagradalsfjall

Acquisition time

Along track incidence angles

Across track incidence angles

B/H

22 March 2021 13:23

-5.4 5.2

13.4 13.6

0.19

23 March 2021 13:15

-6.7 8.5

6.1 7

0.29

26 March 2021 12:52

-3.2 3.5

-14.4 -13.9

0.13

29 March 2021 13:19

-3.2 3.6

9.9 10.5

0.13

30 March 2021 13:11

-5.5 5.3

2.8 3.5

0.21