TRE ALTAMIRA is part of IRIDE

IRIDE

TRE ALTAMIRA is part of IRIDE, Italy’s flagship space program for Earth Observation IRIDE is one of the most important space programs for Earth Observation and a major component of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). The NRRP is part of Next Generation Eu and defines a broad and ambitious package of investments…

European Ground Motion Service:
2021 data now available

A few months have passed since the last update of the EGMS, the continental-scale InSAR monitoring service providing Europe with millimetric-precise SAR satellite data on ground motion since 2015. After processing the 2021 Sentinel-1 images and integrating the ground motion measurements with the baseline datasets, the ORIGINAL Consortium, of which TRE ALTAMIRA is a proud…

European Ground Motion Service:
All data are available for download

Six months after the first EGMS’ Ortho products release, the ORIGINAL consortium, of which TRE Altamira is a proud member, is delighted to announce that all products are now available for visualization and download by the general public. For those who don’t know, EGMS is an EU Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) program providing continental-scale…

Mine stability monitoring

Lihir gold mine in Papa New Guinea (Credit: Newcrest)

Mine stability monitoring with satellite InSAR One of the main challenges in the mining sector is the monitoring of ground behaviour over large assets, which often experience displacement due to operational activities. Slope instability in particular can be a significant threat to the integrity of mine sites and staff safety. Regular and accurate site stability…

European Ground Motion Service:
An introduction

EGMS

The first InSAR monitoring service at a continental scale We have come a long way since 1993, when the cover page of Nature magazine hosted a SAR interferogram mapping the ground displacement caused by an earthquake. Almost three decades later, the European Environmental Agency (EEA) initiated the first European Ground Motion Service (EGMS), and with…