Volcanic Geomorphic Hazards Research In Southeast Asia
The following is a listing of studies undertaken in the context of the MSc programme at ITC, Enschede, the Netherlands (one is a PhD thesis), dealing with volcanic-geomorphic hazard identification, monitoring, and zonation.
Philippines:
Atienza, G. Jayne T., 1995, Lahar Mapping Using Remotes Sensing and GIS Techniques- a Case Study of Pasig-Potrero River Basin, Mt. Pinatubo, Phillippines. ITC, M. Sc thesis.
[includes volcanic history of Mt. Pinatubo, lahar change detection, Pasig Portero basin, radar imagery].
Calomarde, RolandoI., 1997, Lahar: an Attribute of Change in the morphology of Sto Tomas-Marella River, Mt. Pinatubo, Zambales, Luzon, Phillippines, ITC, M. Sc thesis. [includes eruptive history, lahar change detection by remote sensing; lahar extent, distribution, thickness in Marella-Sto Tomas basin; Mapanuepene lake; shoreline changes]
Daag. Arturo S., 1994, Geomorphic Development and Erosion of the Mt. Pinatubo 1991 pyroclastic flows in the Sacobia watershed, Phillippines. ITC M. Sc thesis. [measures and models erosion and removal of the PF deposits in upper Sacobian basin as lahar source material; relates to rainfall]
Daag, Arturo, and van Western, Cees J., 1996 . Cartographic Modelling of erosion in Pyroclastic flow deposits of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines; ITC Journal 1996-2, p. 110-124.
Dayao, Arlene A., 1994, Morphostructure and Hazard Implications in Mt. Mayon, Phillippineds, a GIS-Assisted Volcanic Hazards Study. ITC M. Sc thesis . [includes eruptive history of Mt. Mayon, products, processes and hazard implications, factors affecting distribution of volcanic products and hazards, hazard susceptibility mapping].
Javalosa, Ricarte S., 1986, Morphogenesis and Neotectonism of the Santo Tomas Plain, Southwestern Zambales, Luzon, Philippines. ITC M. Sc thesis. [Morpho-structural study of the Sto Tomas basin that was later profoundly affected by the 1991 Pinatubo eruption]
Javelosa, Ricarte S., 1994, Active Quaternary Environments in the Philippine Mobile Belt.
Ph. D Thesis, ITC Publication No. 20, ISBN 90-6164-086-5, 179 p.
[includes chapters on Sto Tomas basin, neotectonism, geomorphic instability related to Pinatubo eruption, risk assessment].
Nossin, Jan J. and Javelosa, Ricarte S., 1996, Geomorphic Risk Zonation Related to June 1991 Eruptions of Mt. Pinatubo, Luzon, Phillippines; in : O. Slaymaker (ed.), Geomorphic Hazards, chapter 6, pages 69-94. John Wiley & Sons.
[includes composite risk zonation index, based on geomorphic mapping, geomorphic risk analysis, georesource priority and site-specific input].
A general and comprehensive account of the Pinatubo eruption of 1991 is : Newhall, Christopher G. and Punongbayan, Raymundo S., (eds.), 1996, Fire and Mud, Eruption and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle & London, 1126 pgs.
[complete record of the 1991 Pinatubo eruption; sections and papers on human impact, history, geophysics, volatile emissions, observations and reconstructions of eruptions 1991-92]
The use of SAR data is reported in :
Lopez E., et al, 1996, Mount Pinatubo Lahar Damage Assessment usingERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Data; Proc. UN-IAF workshop, Education and Awareness, Space Technology Appl. In the Developing World; UN Office Outer Space Aff. Vienna.
In Indonesia volcanic-geomorphic hazards studies have been undertaken in the context of the ITC MSc programme in the Sunda-Tangkuban Perahu area (West Java), Mt Gede (West Java), Mt. Agung (Bali), along with morpho-tectonic and geochronological studies. A PhD study at the Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France, deals in depth with the lahars at Mt. Merapi (Central Java); another paper with lahars of the Kelud volcano.
Noor, Dijauharry 1992. The Applications of Aerospace Imagery to the Study of Morphostructural Landforms and Volcanism in the Sunda Volcanic Complex, West Java, Indonesia, ITC M. Sc thesis
[includes classification of volcanic landforms, neotectonism, synthesis of tectonism and volcanism in the surroundings of Mt. Tangkuban Perahu, north of Bandung].
Bacharuddin Rudy, 1990. Geomorpholigical Approach to Volcanic Hazard Zonation, using remote Sensing Images; two case studies from Indonesia: Mt. Gede, West Java, and Mt. Agung, Bali. ITC M. Sc. Thesis.
[includes hazardous volcanic products and events, volc. Hazards in Indonesisa, hazard zoning for Gede (West Java) and Agung (Bali) volcanoes].
Lavigen, Franck, 1998 Les Lahars du volcan Merapi, Java central, Indonesie. These de Doctorate, Univ. Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, 538 pgs + annexes.
[geomorphology and risk associated with lahars of Merapi volcano; study and monitoring of triggering mechanism and flow processes on the SW and south flanks, surveillance and warming systems; with extensive (31 pages) bibliography].
Thouret, J.-C., K. E. Abdurachman, J. -L. Bourdier, S. Bronto, 1998, Origin, characteristics and behaviour of lahars following the 1990 eruption of Kelud volcano, estern Java, (Indonesia); Bull. Volcanol. V. 59, p. 460-480.
Two further titles, important in this context:
Kusumadinata, K., Ed, 1979, Data Dasar Gunungapi Indonesia, Volcanological Survey of Indonesia, 820 p.
[catalogue of references on Indonesian volcanoes with eruptions in historical time; extensive bibliographies, covering all volcanological publications in Indonesia upto 1979].
Some related studies on volcanic geomorphology and chronology:
Dam, M. A. C., Suparan P., Nossin, Jan. J., Voskull, R. P. G. A. and GTL Group, 1996. A chronology for gemorphological developments in the greater Bandung area, West Java, Indonesia. Journ. Of Southest Asian Earth Sciences, vol. 14, Nos. ½, p. 101-115.
Dam. M. A. C., 1994, The Late Quaternary Evolution of the Bandung Basin, West Java, Indonesia. Doctor's Thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 252 pags.
[dates the basin sediments and reconstructs the Bandung Lake's lifespan. Includes dating]
Nossin. Jan J., Voskuil, Robert P. G. A. and Dam, Rien M. C., 1996, Geomorphologic development of the Sunda volcanic complex, west Java, Indonesia. ITC Journal 1996-2, p. 157-165. [eruptive sequence of the Sunda volcano, predecessor of Tangkuban Perahu, dated by relating the deposits to datable sediments in the former Bandung lake].
Fig. 1 Santo Tomas basin (Luzon, Philippines) April 1988 (SPOT Band 2)
Simkin, Tom and Fiske, Rischard S., 1983, Krakatau 1883, the volcanic eruption and its efforts, Smithsonia Institution Press, Washington DC, 464 p.
[100 years after the eruption, a detailed account and recapitulation of the eruption which produced an estimated 18 km3 of erupted material, an eruptive cloud reaching an estimated 50 km high, and a devastating tsunami; it claimed over 36.000 lives]
Fig 2 Santa Tomas basin Dec. 1991 (SPOT Bd 2)
Fig 3 Santa Tomas basin April 1995 (SPOT Bd 2)
