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The Improvement of Thermal Detection in Dieng Volcano Craters Using ASTER TIR Nighttime
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Kusnadia, Junun Sartohadib, Chris Heckerc
a

Mining and Energy Agency of West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia

b
Faculty of Geography, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
c
Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, The
Netherlands
*contact person : kusnadi@student.utwente.nl

ABSTRACT
One of features that increase during volcanic event is fumaroles temperature. The advance of remote
sensing can detect a thermal anomaly within the volcano. It is safe, low cost and not time consuming. The
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Thermal Infrared (TIR)
image is a high resolution image (90 m), which provides multispectral TIR bands. The 5 multispectral
bands of ASTER TIR have advantages in recognizing each type of land surface properties. Land surface
temperature (LST) is an extraction product of thermal remote sensing image which is widely developed.
Applying the ASTER TIR for LST can provide the understanding of the temperature behavior of the
volcanoes. One of the problems in the accuracy of the LST retrieval is the topographic noise. The
topographic noise is mostly categorized as three main causes: lapse rate, aspect and slope. The lapse rate
reduces the surface temperature corresponding to the increasing of the altitude (dT/dZ). The aspect and
slope affect the capability of land surface in absorbing the solar radiation. The Dieng Volcano is a
volcano which has volcanic hydrothermal system. It marks by the low temperature of fumaroles (<300oC)
and the abundance of hazardous craters. The high accuracy of LST is important for the Dieng volcano
because the temperature changes can be small. This paper aims to correct the three topographic noises to
increase the accuracy of the LST. It uses the line-by-line IDL code so-called STcorr. It is based on the
simple linear regression, which calculates the temperatures by using de-trending operation. The standard
temperature extraction observed thermal anomaly within the craters lake. Meanwhile, the corrected
temperatures could recognize the thermal anomaly from the craters without lake. This correction was
proved to be important in understanding the thermal change in the Dieng volcano.