Italy’s University of Bologna recently made the debut flights of a Raven unmanned air vehicle or UAV intended for use in low altitude monitoring of volcanos. Read on for more details. (Photo of Raven UAV in use by Australian Military, by OzStryker)

According to Flight International, its first volcano monitoring demonstration, carrying a suite of new generation sensors now being developed by NASA and Italy’s National Institue of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will be over Italy’s Mount Stromboli in the March-to-May timeframe of 2009.

Among the sensors on board (probably one at a time) will be a new imaging infra-red camera, an SO2 chemical sensor, a magnometer and a miniturised Fourier Transform Spectrometer.

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