“…Since 2013, the satellite-based monitoring of the volcano was conducted using the Monitoring of Volcanic Activity in Kamchatka and on the Kuril Islands information system (IS) (VolSatView, http://volcanoes.smislab.ru), which allows integrated handling of different satellite data (NOAA (an AVHRR instrument), Terra and Aqua (MODIS), Suomi NPP (VIIRS), Meteor-M (1, 2); Landsat (4,5,7,and 8), EO-1 Hyperion, Kanopus-V, Resurs P, and others), as well as of weather and ground-based data, the results from simulation of ash plume propagation for continuous monitoring, and results from studies of volcanic activity in the Kuril-Kamchatka region (Gordeev et al, 2016).…”