InSAR climate monitoring through Atlas InSAR, Atlas+ and EO‑derived services is designed to help clients address the growing challenges posed by natural hazards and climate change impacts.
These solutions provide tools to anticipate, monitor, and mitigate risks. They also support the development of a safer and more resilient natural environment for future generations.
Climate change is increasing both the frequency and intensity of catastrophic natural hazards. These events can heavily affect communities.
To respond to these challenges, Atlas InSAR monitors ground behaviour, supports risk assessments, and helps prepare mitigation strategies. This approach reduces impacts and associated costs through efficient InSAR climate monitoring.
Applications:
• Landslides: Map deformation perimeters, monitor motion rates, and identify maximum displacement. Atlas+ alert systems can predict potential collapse dates for timely responses.
• Earthquakes: Measure ground displacement before and after seismic events. This helps analyse deformation, locate major shifts, and assess impacts on infrastructure.
• Extreme weather events: Monitor terrain changes caused by heavy rainfall, drought, or coastal erosion. These analyses help detect ground instability and structural risks in both pre- and post-event scenarios.
• Floods: Detect and map flood extents to support rapid assessment and emergency response. The collected data also helps mitigate the risk of future events.
• Volcanic activity: Track ground inflation and deflation linked to magmatic activity. This information helps predict possible eruption timing and affected areas.
Atlas InSAR retrospective and continuous monitoring programs support:
• Infrastructure resilience: Assess how assets respond to climate and hazard-related stresses through retrospective studies, enabling proactive mitigation planning and helping extend infrastructure lifespan.
• Post-event assessment: Analyse ground and infrastructure movement after extreme events. The results support recovery planning, damage assessment, and future risk mitigation.
• Seasonal pattern detection: Identify recurring ground behaviours such as soil expansion and contraction. Displacement amplitude can also be quantified to assess potential structural impacts.
• Dewatering-related subsidence: Detect and monitor surface subsidence caused by aquifer water extraction during drought periods. Affected areas can then be mapped and deformation quantified over time.