SERVICES TITLE

NATURAL PROCESSES INDUCING SLOPE INSTABILITY AND EROSION IN TWO GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN IN ITALY AND GREECE
(Project No EV5V-CT94-0452)

AWARDING AUTHORITY

COMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES GENERAL DIRECTION XII, CLIMATE CHANGE

STUDY PERIOD

1997 - 1999

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Transnational Research Programme of the 12th Directorate of the EU to investigate the parameters related to climate change in the Mediterranean region that contribute to the instability of the slopes. Topic of the programme was the use of the new techniques of remote sensing, of interferometry (differential interferometry), and of GIS.

The Greek area of study was the site of the Panagopoula landslide, that occurred in the sixties, and the erosional area of Arravonitsa, both in Achaia Prefecture.

The program involved the Universities of Athens and Torino Italy, the GAMMA-4 Co Ltd, and three more companies from Italy, France and Belgium.