The consortium ORIGINAL has been awarded the implementation of the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS)

We are happy to announce that the consortium ORIGINAL (OpeRatIonal Ground motion INsar Alliance) has been awarded the implementation of the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS), the innovative project of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS).

The project aims to monitor and identify millimeter movements of the ground and large infrastructures over the entire European territory caused by natural events or anthropogenic activities, such as subsidence, landslides or excavations, through the use and analysis with interferometry of data collected by the Copernicus Earth observation program radar satellite Sentinel-1.

The data and the results will be part of the Copernicus product collection and will be available free of charge to any citizens, researchers and operators.

The consortium, led by e-Geos and which includes established companies such as the Norwegian Research Center (NORCE), TRE Altamira, GAF, the German Space Agency DLR, the Geological Survey of Norway, PPO.LABS, the Hungarian Sopronbánfalva Geodynamic Observatory (SGO), Earth Metrics and NHAZCA S.r.l. will be engaged in a close collaboration for a duration of 4 years, managing a budget of approximately 6 million euros.

EGMS is the largest systematic InSAR monitoring program worldwide and is expected to let ground deformation measurement becoming a basic information for land and infrastructure management over the whole European community.

This result is a confirmation of the European and Italian leadership on Remote Sensing services for Land Monitoring.

NHAZCA is proud to give its contribution to this ambitious project taking advantage of background achieved in the last 10 years supporting large infrastructure companies, land management authorities and asset owners at global scale.