Wide area maps of building differential deformations

Abstract

The European Ground Motion Service (EGMS) uses Sentinel-1 data to monitor and measure land displacement across Europe, delivering information on ground motion phenomena. The EGMS service includes three types of products, enabling the analysis of annually updated ground motion data. The authors are working on a project aimed at computing the spatial gradient of land deformation and generating wide-area differential deformation maps. This type of maps can help identifying potentially vulnerable buildings and urban structures. The project involves developing a software pipeline to compute and convert original deformation data and creating a customized web viewer to display the results. Given the large volume of the processed datasets, with several millions of measurement points an accurate algorithm implementation is needed. The resulting information will aid in monitoring anthropogenic phenomena and their impact on building and infrastructures. This will be essential for urban management and risk mitigation planning.