We reinforce the monitoring of the Sallent Station neighborhood with new technology
- The ICGC maintains a network for continuous monitoring of ground movement at surface and depth and produces a monthly bulletin of the results.
- The Sallent Station neighborhood, an area monitored by the ICGC, will be the place where the technology of the Catalan company Worldsensing, based on a network of autonomous GNSS sensors, will be tested.
The ICGC has collaborated in the installation of a new type of GNSS sensor in the Sallent Station neighborhood, developed by the company Worldsensing, to validate innovative ground monitoring systems.
This area, affected by subsidence due to an old salt mine, has been monitored by the ICGC since 1997, when the effects of the subsidence made residential use incompatible and, in 2009, it was evacuated.
Technicians from the ICGC and Worldsensing during the installation.
The sensor, already installed in Sallent.
Despite the reduction in risk, the ICGC has maintained a basic monitoring network to continue monitoring ground movement, which has not stopped.
Years of experience and the data collected make it possible to make the Sallent case available as a testing and validation field for new monitoring systems, such as the one now added with this new sensor.
This experience is added to the various interventions of the ICGC in geological risks in Catalonia, such as subsidence, landslides or rock falls, through its geotechnical monitoring network (XAG).
More information: https://govern.cat/salapremsa/notes-premsa/657822/linstitut-cartografic-geologic-catalunya-reforca-monitoratge-del-barri-lestacio-sallent-assajant-nova-tecnologia.