Satellite monitoring for road infrastructure safety in Italy
The design and construction of roads and motorways are strongly affected by any movement taking place on the ground. Italy is particularly subject to unexpected ground movement including landslides, subsidence and earthquakes. Avoiding or mitigating the consequences of such events poses significant challenges for planning, building and maintenance of road infrastructure. The ground motion service ...Read more
Proactive maintenance of bridges and viaducts from satellite
Keeping the stability of road infrastructures under control is a necessary and fundamental activity. Infrastructures like bridges and viaducts need scheduled check-ups and constant maintenance programs, suitable for safeguarding their efficiency, durability and reliability. An effective preventive maintenance program provides for detailed knowledge of the infrastructure, together with an advanced static and dynamic monitoring system ...Read more
Predicting landslide incidents in Friuli Venezia Giulia region with Rheticus Safeland
Monitoring land instability to prevent incidents. Land instability can cause serious damage to infrastructure and the environment, and it poses a threat to citizen safety. Falling rocks may destroy roads, pipes, and buildings and even kill bystanders. In recent years, a continuous growth of the intensity and frequency of land stability phenomena has been observed, ...Read more
Pinpointing the failure from Space: the sewerage network of Milan
Introduction Water can be a destructive force, washing away roadbeds and eroding riverbanks. Sometimes it works silently and invisibly, removing soil beneath parking lots and roads until they cave in, exposing sinkholes that shallow houses and cars. Subsidence, or when the ground begins to sink, is an indication of a problem. This does not need ...Read more