was obtained on loan from the Italian Civil Protection Agency. The mobile radar is now situated near the town of Kirkjubæjarklaustur, 80 km from the eruption site in Grímsvötn. IMO staff members monitor the progress of the eruption using the two weather radars.
The mobile weather radar
The mobile radar, which is only 80 km from the eruption site, shows enhanced scattering
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the quality of the data. Therefore, a mobile X-band weather radar was purchased, but while this custom made radar was being assembled and tested, another was obtained on loan from the Italian Civil Protection Agency. The mobile radar is now situated near the town of Kirkjubæjarklaustur, 80 km from the eruption site in Grímsvötn. IMO staff members monitor the progress of the eruption using
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). The ice caps are Eyjafjallajo¨kull (ca. 81 km2),
Tindfjallajo¨kull (ca. 15 km2) and Torfajo¨kull (ca. 14 km2). The DEMs were
compiled using aerial photographs from 1979 to 1984, airborne Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) images obtained in 1998 and two image pairs from the
SPOT 5 satellite’s high-resolution stereoscopic (HRS) instrument acquired in
2004. The ice-free part of the accurate DEM from 1998
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