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Terrafirma (www.terrafirma.eu.com) aims to provide a Pan-European ground motion information service which provides identification, assessment, understanding and monitoring of ground motions in the following thematic areas:

• Tectonics
• Flood
• Hydrogeology (including abandoned and inactive mines as well as landslides)

Services available include:

• maps and time histories, from radar satellite archives, showing ground movement rates in recent years at millimetric scales.
• monitoring of specific hazard areas on request.
• measurements integrated with geological and other information and interpreted by a thematic expert to provide the understanding needed before decision-makers take action.
• site/project-based models to provide a deeper understanding and to introduce an element of forecasting.

Products are already available for several sites throughout Europe. A map of the service coverage is available.

 A yearly user Workshop (open to all) is held with presentations of interpretations made as well as a training course in the use of Terrafirma InSAR products for ground motion management.

For further information, please contact  Geraint Cooksley, Terrafirma Project Manager.