Science of Tsunami Hazards (Nov 2016)
BATHYMETRIC SOUNDING by REMOTE SENSING Using ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
Abstract
We describe a novel modus operandi to survey the ocean floor. We utilize the eruption of submarine volcanoes as a light source. The electromagnetic radiation emitted by such eruptions illuminate the ocean floor and thus provides information about the barythmetric topology, and a geostationary satellite can monitor this. Since the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation is many orders of magnitude shorter than that of the acoustic wave, finer details of the bathymetric features can be obtained. We show that a topographical representation of the seabed can be derived from the Signal Diagram by a simple transformation (a mirror reflection). In this case the radiation is emitted by water molecules stimulated by the heat of the volcanic eruption, in contradistinction to the case of tsunami radiation, where the water molecules are stimulated by mutual collisions at high speed. We give two examples: Illapel, Chile and Chichi-shima, Japan. We have also shown that water molecules in the ocean, when stimulated by the heat of submarine volcanic eruption, will emit infrared radiation
