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GReD's activities in the framework of the BRIGAID project were recently featured in the Italian newspaper Il Secolo XIX: Monterosso, arrivano le sentinelle “anti-alluvione”. GReD is about to deploy 8 GeoGuard GNSS stations for the monitoring of precipitable water vapor, 4 in Monterosso al Mare (Liguria, Italy), and 4 in the city of Rotterdam. Precipitable water vapor is an important atmospheric parameter, that can be used within weather forecast models to improve the prediction of heavy rain events.  

GReD joined a delegation of companies representing the Como area business and industrial environment, with the support of Fondazione Alessandro Volta and ComoNExT. GReD had the chance to present its innovative GNSS-based deformation monitoring service GeoGuard, to Kazakh stakeholders in the Oil & Gas industry.

GReD attended the 79th EAGE Conference & Exhibition 2017 - "Energy, Technology, Sustainability - Time to open a new Chapter", held in Paris, in the framework of the GIULIA ESA project. Dr. Daniele Sampietro presented a work titled "Gravity Inversion to Understand Lithospheric Architecture Project, First Results" (link).

Next 10 and 11 May GReD will be in Rome at the 2017 Esri Italia Conference, participating among innovator teams of GEOsmartcampus, the first business accelerator based on Digital Geography. We will be present in the exhibition area with a corner at the GEOmeetUp Point, an area dedicated to meeting partners and innovative projects through demos and dedicated presentations.

GReD has joined the Geo Smart Campus, a business accelerator based on the Digital Geography that promotes skills and tools for developing innovative solutions. In this way GReD has become part of a innovation community that promotes the growth of creative potential and synergies with both local and international productive realities.

GReD is one of the three innovative companies within ComoNExT visited by the Italian ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Saturday 22 April 2017. The talks focused on the GeoGuard service (http://www.geoguard.eu/) for the precise, continuous and reliable monitoring of the movements and deformations of critical infrastructures.

Il 16 febbraio 2017 presso il comune di Savona (8.30- 17.30) si svolgerà l’evento: Un territorio più resiliente, l’interdisciplinarità e le frontiere dell’innovazione. L’evento, che si inserisce nell’ambito di RED (Riviera Engineering Days), si pone l’obiettivo di far conoscere quanto istituzioni e associazioni stanno facendo per contrastare il rischio idrogeologico in Italia e ciò che la ricerca scientifica e le frontiere dell’innovazione rendono oggi disponibile per mitigarne i rischi e gli impatti sul territorio.  Una particolare attenzione verrà posta sulla interdisciplinarità, come componente indispensabile per il successo di progetti ed iniziative in quest’ambito. RED si occupa di organizzare eventi dedicati [...]

La presenza della ricerca e delle imprese italiane nel progetto europeo BRIGAID per l’innovazione nella lotta ai cambiamenti climatici e agli eventi estremi in Europa Sito web del progetto: http://brigaid.eu/ L'Università di Bologna, la spin-off del Politecnico di Milano Geomatics Research & Development (GReD) Srl e la società d’ingegneria italiana Thetis SpA lavoreranno assieme a qualificati partners provenienti da 11 paesi europei per i prossimi quattro anni al progetto BRIGAID su temi dell'innovazione nelle strategie di adattamento al cambiamento climatico, con particolare attenzione al rischio da alluvioni, siccità ed eventi naturali estremi. Il progetto BRIGAID è finanziato dalla Comunità Europea [...]

GReD is among the co-founders of NExT4Things (N4T), that is a "Rete d'impresa", i.e. a network of companies acting as an unified legal entity. N4T involves ten companies with activities/expertise related to the Internet of Things (IoT), all hosted at the Science and Technology Park ComoNExT. N4T has the objective of fostering, guiding and realizing (facilitating) the digital transformation of products and processes of enterprises, by using IoT as enabling technology. GReD è tra i co-fondatori della rete d'impresa NExT4Things (N4T), che coinvolge dieci realtà legate all'Internet of Things (IoT) insediate nel Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico ComoNExT: http://www.next4things.com/ N4T ha l’obiettivo di stimolare, accompagnare e [...]

Today  the "Il Sole 24 Ore" newspaper included GReD among Italy's excellent entities in its magazine "Ricerca Tecnologica, Innovazione Hi-Tech medica e scientifica", with an article dedicated to the GeoGuard Monitoring Service  

GReD started a collaboration with the Clouds And PrEcipitation Physics (CAPE) research group of the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC) and the Geodesy and Geomatics Division of the Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) of the Sapienza University of Rome on a project that aims at testing low-cost GNSS receivers for atmospheric water vapor retrieval. GReD will provide support on the interpolation of ionospheric delay, needed when dealing with the single-frequency observations of low-cost GNSS receivers, as well as on the development of dedicated GNSS processing functions based on goGPS open source software.

New page describing a project GReD is carrying out for Eni upstream activities: https://www.g-red.eu/projects/project-for-the-upstream-activities-of-eni/.

GReD, in collaboration with GEOlab of Politecnico di Milano and RISH of Kyoto University, organized the 1st GEOlab-RISH joint workshop on observations and models for meteorology. The workshop was held from 22 to 26 February 2016 and saw the participation of more than 30 researchers from 6 countries.

Eugenio Realini (GReD) and Nick van de Giesen (TU Delft) were awarded the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2015 University Special Prize and The Netherlands Regional Prize. Project title: “GNSS Monitoring of Precipitable Water Vapour over East Africa Using Low-Cost Receivers”.

One of the major activities of GReD srl is the development of state-of-the-art solutions for geophysical exploration from gravimetric data. In this framework GReD srl and the Centre for Tectonics, Resources and Exploration (TRaX) Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Adelaide are carrying out a scientific collaboration to study the crustal architecture in several key regions of the world. The focus of this joint research activity is the evaluation of the impact of gravity data in the modelling of the crust/mantle discontinuity.

GReD will attend the Earth Observation for Water Cycle Science 2015 (eo4water2015), to be held in Frascati (Rome, Italy) on October 20th-23rd. In particular, GReD staff will present a poster by the title "Low-cost multi-constellation GNSS receivers for atmospheric water vapour sensing".

GReD, in collaboration with Prof. Saji Hameed of the University of Aizu (Japan), will participate as exhibitor and presenter to the Maker Faire Rome 2015 with a project titled "Tracking clouds and rain with low cost GPS chips".

One of the major activities of GReD s.r.l is the development of state-of-the-art solutions for geophysical exploration from gravimetric data. In this framework GReD s.r.l. and ERCL Ltd. (Exploration Reservoir Consultants - http://www.ercl.com/) are carrying out a scientific collaboration to study the crustal architecture of Mozambique for oil & gas exploration. The focus of this joint research activity is the evaluation of the impact of GOCE satellite data in the modelling of the crust/mantle discontinuity.

GReD attended the FOSS4G Europe Como 2015, which was held in Como (Italy) on July 14th-17th. In particular, GReD staff participated in the proposal, organization and execution of a workshop, by the title "Free and open source software for kinematic GNSS positioning", in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino. GReD staff also co-authored the paper "Extending goGPS for Snapshot Positioning" and the poster "Geodetic monitoring experiment by low-cost GNSS receiversand goGPS positioning engine", which were both presented within the Positioning Track on July 16th.

GReD is among the 22 SMEs selected by JUPITER project to attend the ITS World Congress 2015 in Bordeaux. More information here: Download the JUPITER Press release

In the collaboration between GReD and Proteco, we are pleased to announce the start of the GeoGuard Service. GeoGuard is an innovative end-to-end service for the continuos monitoring of critical infrastructure and natural hazards. It includes activities and systems designed for the delivery of solutions, customized to different application scenarios, to provide accurate positioning with centimeter-level accuracy in near real-time, or millimiter-level accuracy for daily/sub-daily solutions. GeoGuard is designed to face and respond to social and industrial challenges, such as: safety of critical infrastructures (bridges, railways, water tanks, towers, dams, wind farms, ...); natural hazards (subsidence, landslides, river floods, extreme [...]

GReD's proposal, named SOLID (Satellite-based Observation of Land and Infrastructure Deformations), was selected for funding under the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument (Phase 1) call. The SME Instrument Phase 1 target is to explore and assess the technical feasibility and commercial potential of a breakthrough innovation that a Small-Medium Enterprise (SME) wants to exploit and commercialize. Here you can access the official list of SME Instrument beneficiaries (Phase 1): link

GReD will attend the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015, to be held in Chiba (Tokyo, Japan) on May 24th-28th. In particular, GReD staff participated in the proposal and organization of a scientific session (A-AS03 - "Understanding extremes: high-resolution models, dense observations and the emergent role of big data"), and will give an invited talk at session M-TT05 - "New phase of GPS/GNSS application as an integrated earth observation system".

GReD is collaborating with Yoshida Lab. of Osaka City University (OCU) in Japan, for carrying out joint experiments on deformation monitoring by precise GNSS positioning using low-cost GNSS receivers. The tests are carried out in relative positioning mode, with respect to both physical and virtual reference stations, evaluating the positioning performance when using different GNSS constellations.

Within the collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, GReD has started activities on the frontier of geomatics R&D for Earth knowledge to enable innovative solutions for oil & gas industry. These solutions bring important advantages in the exploration and production activities, particularly in wide and poorly explored areas, thus allowing for a better identification of the most promising acreages on a regional scale. The R&D activities aim to considerably improve performances of airborne kinematic gravimetry/gradiometry in terms of accuracy and spatial resolution of the retrieved local gravity field, to combine different gravity observations in a multi-scale approach (delivering a local grid [...]

Terna Rete Italia SpA and GReD recently started a collaboration to test an innovative solution for the continuous monitoring of the stability of the towers for the national electricity transmission network. The solution allows to detect with an accuracy of about one centimeter the absolute position of a point on the tower allowing in this way to highlight abnormal movements. The pilot project consists on the introduction of a new generation of GPS receivers to be installed on the towers, designed and engineered by GReD in collaboration with Proteco, and the processing of GPS data leveraging on computational models designed and developed by GReD. Terna Rete Italia SpA is the company belonging to the Terna Group that deals with the national electricity grid’s operation, maintenance and development fully respecting the environment and communities. Terna [...]

One of the main activities of GReD is the development of state-of-the-art solutions for advanced topographic and cartographic applications, as well as support for Critical Infrastructures Health monitoring systems. GReD and Proteco recently became partners, with the purpose of developing and commercialising a Service for the static/dynamic monitoring of critical infrastructures. The system, based on GNSS (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BEIDOU, ...) will allow to measure the position of special sensors at the centimeter/millimeter level, in order to permit a continuous and precise monitoring of the behaviour of static systems (buildings, dams, bridges, towers for power supply, ...) as well as [...]

From 2014, November 1st, GReD's operative headquarters is located in ComoNExT, Lomazzo (CO), Italy. Inaugurated in 2010, ComoNExT Science and Technology Park is a project launched by the Como Chamber of Commerce to promote the growth and competitiveness of local businesses through a culture of innovation. ComoNExT is situated in Lomazzo, in the former Cotonificio Somaini, a 19th-century cotton mill of great historical and architectural significance. The mill’s conversion highlights the determination to regenerate this industrial site and the surrounding area. A century-old historical symbol, this icon of local manufacturing development and tradition lies in the triangle formed by upper [...]

GReD attended the conference “Topo-Europe 2014: Interplay between surface, lithospheric, and mantle processes”, held in Barcelona on 17-19 September, with a poster presentation. Poster title: “GEMMA1.0: A Global Crustal Model from the Inversion of GOCE Gravity Observations”. […]

GReD attended the 3rd International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) General Assembly, held from 30 June to 6 July in Shanghai, China. A poster was presented, with the title “The GEMMA Crustal Model and the Bayesian Estimation of Geological Provinces from GOCE Data”. […]

GReD attended the EGU General Assembly 2014, which was held on 27 April – 2 May in Vienna, Austria, with an oral presentation and two poster presentations. The oral presentation was entitled “Exploiting Along-track GOCE Gravity Gradients for the Modeling of Subduction Plates”, while the two posters were […]

GReD won the AGLC “Licio Cernoboro” prize for young researchers in the Applied Geophysics session of the 32nd GNGTS Conference. Attached you can find the extended abstract and the presentation of the work entitled “Il modello GEMMA: realizzazione, validazione e distribuzione”. […]

GReD participated at ESA Living Planet Symposium to be held 9 – 13 September in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, with an oral presentation. The abstract entitled “The GEMMA crustal model: validation and data distribution” was reviewed by […]

GReD attended the IAG Scientific Assembly 2013 in Potsdam from 1 to 6 September 2013, with a poster presentation. Attached you can find abstract and poster of the work entitled “A new Earth Gravitational Model from the combination of GOCE and EGM08 models”. […]

GReD participated at the Goldschmidt2013 Symposium held in Florence (August 25-30, 2013), with an oral presentation. The work entitled “Crustal Thickness Estimation from GOCE Satellite Mission Gravity Data” was as oral presentation on Tuesday 27th August in Session 04e. […]

GReD will be present at the VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium in Rome (June 17-21, 2013), with an oral presentation. The abstract entitled “Integrating geological prior information into the inverse gravimetric problem: the Bayesian approach” […]

GReD attended EGU 2013 General Assembly, held in Vienna from 8 to 12 April 2013, with two oral presentations: one on the use of a GNSS multi-antenna system with the goGPS software […]

Sportello Matematico per l’Industria Italiana (SM[i]2) encourages effective and highly qualified consulting in the field of science and technology transfer, focusing in particular on the role of mathematics applied to the problems of Industry and Society. […]

The annual SIFET meeting has been held in Modena from 12th to 14th September 2012; the main subject was “GNSS: FROM THE GLOBAL ADJUSTMENT TO THE LOCAL SURVEY”. GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) represent one of the most  […]