WOVOdat - Data on Volcanic Unrest

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IAVCEI 2025 SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY - POSTERS

Global Perspectives on Volcano Monitoring: Automation, Standardization, and Capacity Building (NRFI)

NRFI Poster 2025

Benoit Taisne, Christina Widiwijayanti, Nang T.Z. Win, Tania Espinosa-Ortega, Andika Bayu Aji, Elise Gandon, Diane Rochet, Herbian H. Prabowo. Full poster can be downloaded here.
NRFI Poster 2025

WOVOdat web service data retrieval system for comprehensive volcano monitoring

WOVOdat Web service 2025

T.Z.W. Nang, C. Widiwijayanti, T. Espinosa-Ortega, J. De Groote, B. Taisne. Full poster can be downloaded here.
Web Service Poster 2025

Towards global standardization and automation in volcano monitoring: Enhancing eruption forecast, data access, and capacity building

Early Warning For All Poster 2025

B. Taisne, C. Widiwijayanti, N.T.Z. Win, T. Espinosa-Ortega, A.B. Aji, J. De Groote, E. Gandon, D. Rochet, H.H. Prabowo, F. Costa, C. Newhall, A. Ratdomopurbo – in collaboration with WOVO observatories. Full poster can be downloaded here.
Early Warning For All Poster 2025

WOVOdat web service data retrieval system for comprehensive volcano monitoring

WOVOdat Web service 2025

T.Z.W. Nang, C. Widiwijayanti, T. Espinosa-Ortega, J. De Groote, B. Taisne, WOVOdat web service data retrieval system for comprehensive volcano monitoring, Bulletin of Volcanology, Volume 87, Article 21 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-025-01801-8 Web Service 2025

The global volcano monitoring infrastructure database (GVMID)

GVMID

C. Widiwijayanti, T.Z.W. Nang, T. Espinosa-Ortega, F. Costa, B. Taisne, Front. Earth Sci., Volume 12 - 2024 (12:1284889)
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1284889 GVMID

Optimal spatial distribution of seismic stations to detect magma migration using the seismic amplitude ratio analysis

GVMID

T. Espinosa-Ortega, B. Taisne, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 452, 108138, 2024. Full paper can be downloaded
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108138' GVMID

Probabilistic analysis to correlate seismic data with with lava extrusion Phases
at Merapi volcano (Indonesia), 23 March 2022

Merapi paper 2022

T. Espinosa-Ortega, A. Budi-Santoso, Sulistiyani, N.-T.-Z. Win, C. Widiwijayanti, F. Costa, "Probabilistic analysis to correlate seismic data with lava extrusion phases at Merapi volcano (Indonesia)", Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research,2022,107537,ISSN 0377-0273
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107537 Merapi Paper 2022
A new blog page of Merapi volcano can also be viewed here.

The anniversary of Pinatubo's eruption blog, 15th June 2021

Pinatubo Anniversary Blog 2021

Pinatubo's eruption anniversary blog page here.
Pinatubo Anniversary Blog 2021

The Global Volcano Monitoring Infrastructure Database (GVMID) Workshop,
18 ~ 24 Feb 2021

Pinatubo Anniversary Blog 2021

Workshop on volcano monitoring infrastructure on the ground and in space GVMID workshop is to improve the understanding of the current capabilities and limits of volcano monitoring from the ground and space. Click here to browse GVMID webpage

How volcano scientists are teaming up to stop the next big disaster

Inverse magazine 2021

Emma Betuel, Inverse, February 2021
WOVOdat Paper 2019

WOVOdat contributes to the special issue
“When data helps policy to address systemic risk” of the Disaster Prevention and Management (DPM) journal as part of the UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR19)

WOVOdat Paper 2019

Costa, F., Widiwijayanti, C., Nang, T., Fajiculay, E., Espinosa-Ortega, T. and Newhall, C. (2019), "WOVOdat – the global volcano unrest database aimed at improving eruption forecasts", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 28 No. 6, pp. 738-751
https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-09-2019-0301 WOVOdat Paper 2019

WOVOdat JVGR Open-access publication
"An online, growing library of worldwide volcanic unrest"

WOVOdat Paper
C.G. Newhall, F. Costa, A. Ratdomopurbo, D.Y. Venezky, C. Widiwijayanti, Nang Thin Zar Win, K. Tan, E. Fajiculay In Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 345, 2017, Pages 184-199, ISSN 0377-0273,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.08.003 WOVOdat Paper 2019

Data from Past Eruptions Could Reduce Future Volcano Hazards
"Optimizing the use of Volcano Monitoring Database to Anticipate Unrest"

WOVOdat Paper 2


Time: 26 November - 29 November 2018
Venue: Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Costa, F., C. Widiwijayanti, and H. Humaida (2019), Data from past eruptions could reduce future volcano hazards, Eos, 100, Published on 25 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO118941
WOVOdat Paper Hazard 2019




WOVOdat 2018 international workshop on "Optimizing the use of Volcano Monitoring Database to Anticipate Unrest"

WOVOdat Paper
Time: 26 - 29 November 2018
Venue: BPPTKG, Yogyakarta, Indonesia - Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (CVGHM)
Participants: CVGHM (Indonesia), PHIVOLCS (Philippines), RVO (Papua New Guinea), SERNAGEOMIN (Chile), IPGP (France), INGV (Italy), NIED (Japan), ERI (Japan), MVO (Montserrat), USGS (USA), EOS-NTU (Singapore)
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WOVOdat Paper Hazard 2019

WOVOdat 2016 workshop on “How to Optimise the Use of Volcano Monitoring Database"

WOVOdat Paper
Time: 31 October - 4 November 2016
Venue: Earth Observatory of Singapore - NTU
Participants: Centre for Volcanological and Geological Hazard Mitigation (CVGHM, Indonesia), Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS, Philippine), Rabaul Volcano Observatory (RVO, Papua New Guinea), and EOS volcano group.
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WOVOdat Paper Hazard 2019