Work packages

The duration of the SARAI project will be four years. The project activities are organized in seven work packages (WPs):

Project management (CTTC)

Responsible: OMH.
Participants: MC, MBP.
Start time: T1
Duration: 48 months

The objective of this WP is effective management, supervision, and coordination of the project. This will include administrative, economic, and technical aspects. The administrative deliverables of the project will be managed in WP1.

Resources:

principal investigators and project management team of CTTC and IGME.

Development of DInSAR and PSI tools (CTTC).

Responsible: OMH.
Participants: MC, MBP, RP, JN, BC, MM, MMl, NO.
Start time: T1
Duration: 36 months

This is the first step of the project, which addresses fundamental research topics of deformation monitoring using DInSAR and PSI techniques.

Resources:

(i) project participants; (ii) DInSAR and PSI tools, procedures, and documentation of CTTC; (iii) advanced remote sensing tools; (iv) several SAR datasets (X- and C-band); (v) active and passive corner reflectors.

Tools to exploit EGMS and EPOS products (CTTC/IGME).

Responsible: MC.
Participants: OMH, MBP, HAA, JN, EP, BC, RP.
Start time: T1
Duration: 48 months

Develop tools to integrate/exploit the InSAR products coming from the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS) and EPOS.

Resources:

(i) project participants; (ii) existing DInSAR and PSI tools, procedures, and documentation of CTTC; (iii) advanced remote sensing tools of CTTC; (iv) several SAR datasets (X- and C-band); (v) InSAR-derived deformation database from WP4.

InSAR-derived deformation database (IGME).

Responsible: MBP.
Participants: OMH, CGA, HAA, MPSP, VRG, PE, JLV, CRC, GBC.
Start time: T1
Duration: 48 months

Create a database of PS to train AI-based algorithms for the classification of active deformation areas which will be updated throughout the project.

Resources:

(i) project participants; (ii) catalogs and inventories to complete the database (table X); (iii) previous InSAR results of CTTC’s and IGME’s teams, which include a large variety of deformation phenomena (aquifer-related ground subsidence, slow landslides, sinkholes, consolidation settlement, tectonic deformation) in different environments (urban areas, agricultural areas, mountainous areas, active and abandoned mining areas); (iv) the new InSAR results from EGMS, EPOS, GEP, CTTC.

Future evolution of ground deformation: Susceptibility assessment and Prediction (IGME).

Responsible: CGA.
Participants: MBP, HAA, OMH, GH, RMMR, AL, RB.
Start time: T1
Duration: 36 months

Develop AI-based tools for susceptibility assessment and ground deformation prediction.

Resources:

(i) project participants; (ii) The PS database from WP4; (iii) The AI-based classifier tools obtained in WP3; (iv) previous susceptibility maps, from statistical models, existing in the pilot areas (Granada Province, Mallorca island, Catalonia region); (v) InSAR time series of different deformation phenomena (from IGME’s and CTTC’s previous studies) will be used to train, test and develop the AI-based tools for prediction and early detection.

Application and validation in pilot areas (IGME).

Responsible: MBP.
Participants: CGA, OMH, RMMR, VRG, PE, JMP, GBC, CRC, RST, JLV.
Start time: T10
Duration: 18 months

The tools developed in the project will be tested in selected pilot areas in Spain where IGME and CTTC teams have studied land movements associated with different geohazards in previous projects, such as Murcia region, Granada province, Mallorca, Asturias, Ibiza, Barcelona, or Madrid. Each tool will be tested at least in one of the pilot areas.

Resources:

(i) project participants; (ii) tools developed in WP2, WP3, and WP5; (iii) Active deformation areas identified and classified in the pilot areas from our previous studies; (iv) existing susceptibility maps of ground subsidence and landslides at regional level in the pilot areas; (v) existing ground deformation inventories in the pilot areas (MOVES database, Granada inventory, Mallorca inventory, etc.).

Diffusion and transference of technology (CTTC).

Responsible: MC.
Participants: all project participants.
Start time: T1
Duration: 48 months

The objective of this WP is to guarantee adequate dissemination of the project results, including internal dissemination within the research and working teams of the project and the entities interested in the results of the project.

Resources:

(i) project participants; (ii) CTTC facilities, (iii) IGME facilities.

The WP starting times are indicated in trimesters (from T1 to T16, see also the chronogram).

SARAI TEAM

Team	Member	Filiation	Member’s acronym
CTTC research team	Oriol Monserrat Hernández	CTTC	OMH
	Michele Crosetto	CTTC	MC
	Riccardo Palamà	CTTC	RP
	José Navarro	CTTC	JN
	Pedro Espín	CTTC	PE
	María Cuevas	CTTC	MCu
	Dena Bazazian	CTTC	DB
	Eulàlia Parés	CTTC	EP
CTTC work team	Bruno Crippa	University of Milan	BC
	Marek Mroz	UWM, Poland	MM
	Magdalena Mlaczko	UWM, Poland	MMl
	Natalia Ostrowska	UWM, Poland	NO
IGME research team	Carolina Guardiola Albert	IGME	CGA
	Marta Béjar Pizarro	IGME	MBP
	Hector Aguilera Alonso	IGME	HAA
	Gerardo Herrera	IGME	GH
	Rosa M. Mateos Ruíz	IGME	RMMR
	Joaquín Mulas de la Peña	IGME	JMP
	Margarita Patricia Sanabria Pabón	IGME	MSP
	Virginia Rodríguez Gómez	IGME	VRG
IGME work team	Roberta Boni	University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy	RB
	Aracely Lima	Instituto de Investigación Geológico y Energético de Ecuador	AL
	Pablo Ezquerro	IGME	PE
	Guadalupe Bru Cruz	IGME	GBC
	Roberto Sarro Trigueros	IGME	RST
	Juan López Vinielles	HEMAV SL	JLV
	Cristina Reyes Carmona	IGME	CRC

Table of people included in the work plan. The acronym for each person’s name will be used hereafter.

And additionally:

One predoctoral contract to develop a PhD at IGME (which would be mainly related to the scientific and methodological aspects of WP3 and WP5).