Ground motion monitoring of Italian regions to prevent and mitigate natural disasters and support urban development Since 2014, and the launch of the first ESA Copernicus’ Sentinel-1A radar, and later, Sentinel-1B, TRE Altamira has joined forces with the Civil Protection Centre of the University of Florence, in order to detect and monitor ground motion and…
A case study: the Hotel Collapse in Quanzhou Whenever we face a tragedy, we want to know as much as possible about it, could we have done anything to avoid it; what can we do to make sure nothing similar happens again? This is true for any tragedy. During the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak…
In water-stressed zones around the world, the unregulated or uncontrolled extraction of underground water can lead to the depletion of aquifers and generate subsidence of the ground surface. In urban areas this can also have a severe impact on buildings and infrastructure. For authorities the identification, monitoring and prevention of these unregulated and often undetected…
