Multidisciplinary and multi-methodological approach for the study of active volcanic areas. Preliminary results for the Vulcano island test site (Southern Sicily, Italy)

We present a multidisciplinary and multi-metodological approach to develop a geostructural and dynamic model applied to an active volcanic area and based on the integrated interpretation of all available geophysical data sets. New algorithms are proposed and applied to synthesise the results coming from the single modelling of different geophysical data sets. Some constrains imposed by the results of other geo-scientific methodologies (geological, geochemical, geodetic, etc.) are considered to obtain a geo-structural model of the volcanic area under investigation. This area, for its peculiar nature, can modify itself from time to time and therefore is necessary to take in account the temporal and spatial variations of monitored parameters. So, the model parameters changes will give an indication on the persisting volcanic dynamics in the subsurface. These results, will be mosaiced using a Geographical Information System. The Vulcano Island was selected as test site, because high quality sets of geophysical data are available within the framework of our previous research projects.