CONFERENCE
Proceedings:
on March 27, 2025 at 10.00-13.00,
in auditorium 702, UL House of Nature, Jelgavas street 1, Riga, Latvia.
Course Aim
This course aims to provide candidates with an overview of the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS). This service is a Copernicus Service devoted to the monitoring of land deformation phenomena.
Course Overview
The European Ground Motion Service is a Copernicus Service devoted to the monitoring of land deformation phenomena. It is based on the radar interferometry technique, which exploits data acquired by radar satellites. The EGMS covers all Europe (with some exceptions like Switzerland and a few Balkan countries) and the deformation phenomena from 2015 to date. The data of such a Service are open and free for everybody.
The EGMS can be a game-changer in the field of deformation monitoring. Now that the Service is set in place, the priority of the European Environment Agency, which is in charge of the Service, is its dissemination at European level. This course is part of such a dissemination strategy.
This course will help you choose and interpret the most appropriate product for your application of interest, explain the background of the science behind the products and demonstrate how these products are used in a range of settings. There will also be the opportunity to meet other users and ask questions of practitioners at the event.
The course will be provided by CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya), which is co-chair of the EGMS Advisory Board. The course will be in English and free of charge. Geotechnical Society of Ireland and Geological Survey Ireland are co-hosting this course.
Course Objectives
After the course, the participants should be able to:
•Understand the key concepts of radar interferometry.
•Understand the properties of the deformation measurements from radar interferometry.
•Understand the characteristics of the different Service products.
•Understand how to visualize the Service products.
•Understand how to download the Service products and import in a GIS software.
Course Programme
•Introduction to key concepts of radar interferometry and the properties of the deformation measurements from radar interferometry.
•Overview of the different Service products and web mapping interface
•Overview of download options for the Service products and import into GIS software.
•Discussion of case studies.
Who Should Attend?
The potential audience is students, broad, including scientists and technicians working in the field of deformation monitoring of land, structures, and infrastructures; civil engineers; hydrogeologists; mining engineers; geotechnicians; geologists; geoscientists; etc.
Dr. Michele Crosetto, head of the Geomatics Reserch Unit
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
Michele Crosetto holds a civil engineering degree from the Politecnico di Torino (1993) and a doctorate in Topographic and Geodesic Sciences from the Politecnico di Milano (1998). He specialized in Geodesy, Photogrammetry and GIS in Lausanne (EPFL) and Zurich (ETHZ) from 1993 to 1995. He has worked in the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy (January 1999 - July 2000) and as a researcher at the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia. He has formed part of the Institute of Geomatics since 2002. Since
January 2014 is with CTTC, where now he is head of the Geomatics Division. His main research activity is related to the analysis of spaceborne, airborne and ground-based remote sensing data and the development of scientific and technical applications using active sensor types. In the last years he has been involved in a number of projects of the 5th, 6th and 7th and H2020 Framework Programmes of EU (Rapsodi, Galahad, SubCoast, PanGeo, Aphorism, Heimdall, MOMIT, GIMS, etc.). In addition, he has been involved in different projects funded by ESA (PSIC4, Terrafirma and Respond). In the frame of Terrafirma he has been the technical coordinator of the Terrafirma Validation Project. He is the coordinator of the Advisory Board of the European Ground Motion Service.
