VolCAN Project - Drone Swarm Operations and Analytics for Gas Plume Detection and Mapping


Ericksen,J.C., A. Islam, C. Frost, K. Aubert, G. Fricke, V. Dani, R. Fierro, T. Fischer, S. Nowicki, J. Saia, M. Moses (2024). Navigating the Edge: UAV Boundary Tracing for Efficient Volcanic Plume Monitoring. Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)


Fischer, T., C. Mandon, S. Nowicki, J. Erickson, F.V. Rojas, M. Pfeffer, A. Aiuppa, M. Bitetto, G.M. Fricke, M. Moses. CO2 emissions during the 2023 eruption in Reykjanes, Iceland: δ 13C tracks magma degassing. Bull. Volcanology 86, 60 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-024-01751-7.


Ericksen, J. C., T. Fischer, G. Fricke, S. Nowicki, N. Perez, P. Perez, E. Gonzalez and M. Moses (2023). Drone CO2 Measurements During the Tajogaite Volcanic Eruption. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 2023, 229.  https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-229

B.T. McCormick Kilbride, P.H. Barry, T.P. Fischer, G. Holland, M. Hudak, S. Nowicki, C. Ballentine, M. Hohn, I. Iitikari, K. Mulina, E.J. Nicholson (2024). Helium, carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence for slab influence on volcanic gas emissions at Rabaul caldera, Papua New Guinea. Chemical Geology. (10/01 in press) https://doi.org/10.31223/X5S38M

Ericksen, J. C., Fricke, G. M., Nowicki, S., Fischer, T., Hayes, J., Rosenberger, K., Wolf, S., Fierro, R., and Moses, M. E. (2022). Aerial Survey Robotics in Extreme Environments: Mapping Volcanic CO2 Emissions with Flocking UAVs. Frontiers in Control Engineering, 7.

Galle, B., S. Arellano, N. Bobrowski, V. Conde, T. P. Fischer, G. Gerdes, A. Gutmann, T. Hoffmann, I. Itikarai, T. Krejci, E. Liu, K. Mulina, S. Nowicki, T. Richardson, J. Rüdiger, K. Wood, J. Xu (2021). A multi-purpose, multi-rotor drone system for long range and high-altitude volcanic gas plume measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2020-452.

Liu, EJ., A. Aiuppa, A. Alan, S. Arellano, M. Bitetto, N. Bobrowski, S. Carn, R. Clarke, E. Corrales, JM. de Moor, JA. Diaz, M. Edmonds, TP. Fischer, J. Freer, GM. Fricke, B. Galle, G. Gerdes, G. Giudice, A. Gutmann, C.  Hayer, I. Itikarai, J. Jones, E. Mason, BT. McCormick Kilbride, K. Mulina, S. Nowicki, K. Rahilly, T. Richardson, J. Rüdiger, CI. Schipper, IM. Watson, K. Wood (2020). Aerial strategies advance volcanic gas measurements at inaccessible, strongly degassing volcanoes. Science Advances, AAAS, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb9103