ITALY EARTHQUAKE
February 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLSPACE technology is being employed in Europe to alert national emergency services to the risk of an oncoming landslide. The European Space Agency (ESA) is working with Italy's national group for hydro-geological disaster prevention, its environment ministry and Switzerland's federal office for water and geology. Their joint initiative involves the matching of multiple radar images of the same site, acquired using instruments such as the synthetic aperture radar aboard ESA's ERS satellite, so that tiny movements are highlighted. "Very gradual ...
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