Computer methods of image processing of volcanoes

Video surveillance of volcanoes is often complicated by bad weather conditions. Many images are not informative, since they do not show the observed object, that makes access to high-quality images difficult for experts volcanologists and leads to excessive consumption of disk memory. In this paper, an algorithm for calculating the visibility estimate of volcanoes based on the comparison of parametric edges in images with the reference edges of the observed volcano is considered. The resulting estimate can be used to filter non-informative images.