EEA geospatial data catalogue
European Ground Motion Service: Basic 2016-present (vector), Europe, yearly, Aug. 2022
The European Ground Motion Service (EGMS), part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, provides consistent, regular, standardised, harmonised, and reliable information on natural and anthropogenic ground motion phenomena across Copernicus Participating States and national borders, with millimetre-level accuracy.
This metadata describes the first product level of EGMS: Basic.
EGMS Basic delivers InSAR displacement data in the satellite Line-of-Sight (LOS), accompanied by annotated geolocation and quality indicators for each measurement point. It is derived from full-resolution interferometric analysis of Sentinel-1 radar imagery and includes LOS velocity maps for both ascending and descending orbits. Each measurement is referenced to a local point within the processing unit, meaning ground motion values are only meaningful within that unit and cannot be directly compared across adjacent units.
EGMS Basic is visualised as a vector map of measurement points, colour-coded by average LOS velocity, and distributed in comma-separated values (CSV) format. Each point includes a displacement time series, representing ground motion values for each Sentinel-1 acquisition over the monitoring period.
EGMS Basic is delivered to users on an annual basis, following a five-year moving window update strategy. This means that after the Baseline/first update (2016-2021), the following data periods are available: 2018-2022, 2019-2023 and 2020-2024.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-08-01
- Date (Next Update)
- 2026-02-15
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-10-29
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- copernicus_v_3035_20_m_egms-basic_p_2016-now_v01_r00
Identifier
- Codespace
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doi.org
- Description
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- Status
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 20 m
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2016-01-01
Extent
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Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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United Kingdom
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Iceland
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EU27 (from 2020)
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Norway
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- Temporal resolution
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Weekly
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- EEA Management Plan
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2024 6.5.32
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
The Copernicus land monitoring products and services are made available on a principle of full, open and free access, as established by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013.
Free, full and open access to the products and services of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service is made on the conditions that:
1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services (data, software scripts, web services, user and methodological documentation and similar) to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of these products and services.
2. Where the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services have been adapted or modified by the user, the user shall clearly state this.
3. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the European Union.
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Part of seamless database
- Metadata Reference
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
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- OnLine resource
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EGMS Explorer
Download (requires authentication)
- OnLine resource
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Product Information & Technical Documentation
- OnLine resource
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The Basic product has been produced by means of harmonised and tested multi-temporal satellite interferometric techniques able to detect both persistent and distributed scatterer targets. Data are produced from Sentinel-1 images at full resolution with temporal sampling of 12 days. Data are automatically quality controlled vis-à-vis technical requirements during the production.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:32738
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:32740
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:32620
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:32622
- Maintenance and update frequency
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- cc459e76-a40f-4b8e-9a66-6da4acbbf239
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/cc459e76-a40f-4b8e-9a66-6da4acbbf239
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-10-31T13:35:03.806812Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-01-16T08:22:50.697783Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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