Systematic geo-hazards detection and analysis over EU borders based on EGMS data: RASTOOL Project

<p>Copernicus European Ground Motion Service (EGMS) currently provides a big amount of ground-motion data at national scale. This useful information is usually underused by management Authorities and decision-makers due to the difficulties to manage it. RASTOOL project aims to develop and apply new tools over EU borders in order to generate added-value maps detecting the deformation areas and assessing their potential impact to support geo-hazard management. Based on the first release of the EGMS data (Level-2 products), test sites have been selected over the Spanish-Portuguese border obtaining the first performance data of the RASTOOL tools.</p> <p>The thematic auxiliary data and database/inventories necessary to apply the tools have been gathered and prepared to: 1) identify active deformation areas applying advanced requirements and 2) characterize the detected active deformation areas, providing possible triggering factors. Previously unknown active ground deformation areas detected in the study area will be validated in situ through field work to determine the process which can originate such deformation. The final goal is to assess the potential impact of the detected active hazards, using the new tools that will provide information about the vulnerability of the exposed elements.</p>