The European Ground Motion Service (EGMS) is a Copernicus Service devoted to the monitoring of land deformation phenomena. It is based on the radar interferometry technique, which exploits data acquired by radar satellites. The EGMS covers all Europe (with some exceptions like Switzerland and a few Balkan countries) and the deformation phenomena from 2015 to date. The data of such a Service are open and free for everybody, including the private companies.

The EGMS can be a game-changer in the field of deformation monitoring. Now that the Service is set in place, the priority of the European Environment Agency, which is in charge of the Service, is its dissemination at European level. This course is part of such a dissemination strategy.