InSAR workshop for mining operators in Zambia

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Using an overall approach to displacement monitoring over mine sites, TRE ALTAMIRA together with Optron, IDS Georadar and Geoapp will be hosting a workshop in Chingola (Zambia) on 11th January 2018. Technology experts from the four companies will be presenting innovations in satellite, radar, prism and other geotechnical monitoring techniques. An overview of recent cases,…

InSAR nationwide monitoring: the Italian case

InSAR Monitoring over Italy

TRE ALTAMIRA together with E-geos have processed thousands of SAR images to cover the entire Italian territory within the framework of the PST project (Piano Straordinario di Telerilevamento), which went live in 2008, years prior to the launch of Sentinel-1 satellites. The PST results are now presented in the article: “Analysis of surface deformations over…

Territoria GOLD Award for the City of Dax

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The City of Dax has been awarded with the Prize Territoria GOLD in the “Prevention” category for the project conducted using TRE ALTAMIRA satellite technology for urban management. In 2009 the City of Dax selected TRE ALTAMIRA as technological partner to start a programme aimed at a better heritage management using satellite technology. This 8-year…

Can InSAR contribute with new insights into possible earthquake precursors?

Co-seismic interferogram #L'Aquila

This controversial issue is under analysis in a paper co-authored by Fabrizio Novali, R&D manager of TRE ALTAMIRA, now published in Scientific Reports – Nature.   Seismologists at INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologica) have analysed ground displacement before and after the L’Aquila earthquake, which struck the central part of Italy in April 2009…

Néuquen Basin: Sentinel-1 ground deformation study

InSAR ground deformation maps #Néuquen-Basin

We are pleased to be featured in the latest issue of Géologues, the French Geological Society magazine. The article “L’interférométrie radar au service de la cartographie et de la surveillance des mouvements du sol. Application à l’étude des déformations dans le bassin de Neuquén (Argentine)” details our InSAR project with the multinational company TOTAL to…