9. EO Integrated Services to Monitor and Mitigate Geohazards: Contribute from INGV Center for Space Observations of Earth

The increasing population and human activities produce an impact on the terrestrial environment and increase the risk due to geohazards on infrastructures affecting the sustainability of development models for human society. As we live in a very global environment it is necessary to consider that extreme weather events, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions may produce an amplification of the effects both in space (territory) and in time (long term effects) dimensions. In Europe since the creation of the Coperinicus Monitoring System, former Global Monitoring Environment and Security (GMES). The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) has actively contributed in the last 30 years to the development of space technologies both in the Earth Observation sector (including all available Optical and SAR imaging systems) and in the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) sector, allowing the INGV to play a role of excellence both for the study of satellite missions and for the development and supply of operational products for end-users. In 2020 INGV established the Center for Space Observations of Earth (COS) with the aim of coordinating the INGV activities in the Space and Aerospace sector. The COS contributes to the strategy of INGV Departments, namely Environment, Earthquakes and Volcanoes, and the INGV Sections/Volcano Observatories by adding specific products and services based on space observations to assist monitoring, surveillance, research and services for the society regarding Earth processes. In 2022 the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) offered specific funding for the Space Sector which will permit to build, in the next 3 years, both the COS infrastructures (ICT platform) and new research activities to further develop the COS modules, as well as reinforce the cooperation with industrial partners by to provide a series of complementary activities which could improve the national expertise and technological transfer in with a consequent advantage for all the space sector chain supporting the mitigation and monitor of Geohazards at National and Global level.