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Rapid, low-cost photogrammetry to monitor volcanic eruptions: an example from Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA


Rapid, low-cost photogrammetry to monitor volcanic eruptions: an example from Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA
10/21/2012 | Angela K. Diefenbach, Juliet G. Crider, Steve P. Schilling, Daniel Dzurisin
Bulletin of Volcanology
Applications: Engineering & Science and Geology & Mining

The authors describe a low-cost application of digital photogrammetry using commercially available photogrammetric software and oblique photographs taken with an off-the-shelf digital camera to create sequential digital elevation models (DEMs) of a lava dome that grew during the 2004–2008 eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano.

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