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6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 Newsletter Resiliencia Urbana y Ciudades Inteligentes: InSAR para el Monitoreo a Escala Urbana En este boletín queremos hablar sobre cómo las ciudades pueden volverse más resilientes mediante el uso de tecnologías avanzadas de monitoreo satelital. La resiliencia urbana depende de anticipar y gestionar riesgos como subsidencia, asentamiento de infraestructuras y […]

6 OCTOBER, 2025 Newsletter Urban Resilience & Smart Cities: InSAR for City-Scale In this Newsletter we would like to talk about how cities can become more resilient by using advanced satellite monitoring technologies. Urban resilience depends on anticipating and managing risks such as subsidence, infrastructure settlement, and natural hazards. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) provides

4 SEPTEMBER, 2025 Newsletter Monitoring Ground Stability in Geothermal Energy: An InSAR-Based Perspective Geothermal energy is increasingly recognized as a reliable, low-emission, and scalable contributor to the global energy transition. However, as the geothermal sector expands into new geological environments and urban-adjacent areas, the challenges of maintaining long-term reservoir performance and surface stability are becoming

28 JULY, 2025 Newsletter Kafue (Zambia) disaster: the river that has died In February 2025, a catastrophic environmental accident occurred at the Sino-Metals Leach copper mine in Zambia: over 50 million liters of highly toxic mine waste leaked into the Mwambashi River, a tributary of the Kafue River. The spill triggered an ecological crisis killing

1 JUNE, 2025 Newsletter Space archaeology: digging from 500 km above Satellite-based remote sensing techniques are designed, with few exceptions, to monitor the Earth’s surface. But the surface can tell, it turns out, a lot about what is underneath — and these stories are fascinating. In this Newsletter, we take a look at an extraordinary

9 MAY, 2025 Newsletter L-BAND AND THE NEXT FRONTIER IN DEFORMATIONS MONITORING The stability of the Earth’s surface is a global concern. Climate change, increasing natural resources exploitation and growing urbanisation lead to increased risks of ground deformations, many of which are of a new form and nature, as we have shown in our previous

27 MARCH, 2025 Newsletter CLIMATE CHANGE – IS IT FOR REAL? Under the new American Administration many conventional wisdoms have come under scrutiny and one of the long-standing scientific understandings, which came into question, is – weather the climate change is real and whether an action, such as transition from fossil fuels, is truly necessary.

28 FEBRUARY, 2025 Newsletter Re-valorisation In our last Newsletter we argued that closed mines represent a big and largely overlooked threat, which is essentially twofold: a) geotechnical stability of old tailings and waste dumps as well as the territories over the underground shafts and b) environmental contamination caused by residual acid and toxic materials or

30 JANUARY, 2025 Newsletter CLOSED AND ABANDONED MINES MONITORING Contaminated site of Wolverine Mine, Yukon, Canada Closed and old mines represent a huge and largely overlooked problem. Three out of five most contaminated sites in Canada are closed mines with the whopping clean up costs of over $5Bn. In the USA there are over 160,000

17 DECEMBER, 2024 Newsletter InSAR: BUILDING DIFFERENTIAL DEFORMATION (BDD) The PSI technique can be used to monitor deformations over very wide areas. An example is given by the European coverage achieved by the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS). Starting from the EGMS datasets, GeoKinesia and the CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya) have proposed