Fully Automated Volcano Monitoring and Tasking with Planet SkySat Constellation: Results from a Year of Operations

We collect alerts of volcanic activity from space remote sensing, volcano observatories, and meteorological organizations [1], [2]. We use these alerts to autonomously generate <1 m/pixel observation requests for Planet SkySat [3] and 70m/pixel thermal infrared data from the ECOSTRESS instrument on the ISS. We also automatically download Dove imagery corresponding to alerts to supplement the SkySat and ECOSTRESS imagery. One new feature is that we can then automatically generate thermal products from the Planet image data using newly-developed band-comparison classifiers.This system has been running continuously for nearly 1.5 years without a dedicated operations team. It has generated over 650,000 alerts, tasked over 80 SkySat observations, and resulted in more than 6,000 scenes scheduled for ECOSTRESS.