What is it about?
The paper shows how the surface of Etna has been changing with time, and in just a few years, as a result of its eruptive activity. A very active volcano like Etna produces new hills (called "cinder cones") as a result of lava fountains, and whenever new lava is added to its surface by eruptions, the landscape changes.
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Why is it important?
Producing new maps of the upper part of this volcano is of paramount importance for hazard and risk mitigation, but it's useful also for tourists and alpine guides.
Perspectives
The system presented in this paper for producing a new map of the upper part of Etna volcano is innovative because uses several cameras mounted on a helicopter, allowing not just to obtain a map, but also a video giving the possibility to anybody to experiment the helicopter flight that we did without moving from home.
Sonia Calvari
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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This page is a summary of: Topographic Maps of Mount Etna’s Summit Craters, updated to December 2015, Journal of Maps, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2017.1352041.
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